KC705 and Vivado 2019.2

[leif@rdos.net]

I've bought the KC705 and have downloaded Vivado 2019.2, but I cannot get any of the reference designs to build. I'm also trying to do a really simply Verilog program that blinks the LEDs, but the the compiler complains about constraints, and no matter what I put in them, it won't build. I found an old master xdc file for KC705, but it won't build either. 

So, how are you supposed to do designs with the KC705? Should you download 2014.x version instead, or is there an up-to-date xdc that actually compiles on 2019.2?

[thakurr]

Hi leif@rdos.net 

Can you show what is the exact error you get? Design on KC705 should build successfully on 2019.2 with proper contraints used.

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[leif@rdos.net]

I suppose most of it is not relevant anymore. There are problems with the documentation, and constraint files, but it's possible to solve. At least the PCIe project does build without much fuss with 2019.2, but the SDRAM won't (because of contraints). You really should update the documents and source files so they build with the latest Vivado version. Many newcomers might use KC705, and if they cannot build reference projects, they might just give up and move on to something else.