New Project... opens a wizard in the style of Vivado's New Project dialog. Parts and boards come from your installed tools, never from a list Neural Inverse types in.
Create a project
- Run New Project....
- Choose the project type: RTL, I/O planning, imported (from a vendor project), or an example.
- On the Parts tab, filter by vendor, family, package, speed grade, temperature grade (including industrial, automotive XA and defence XQ) and minimum resources, or search. The table has the vendor's columns: I/O pins, available IOBs, LUTs, flip-flops, block RAM, UltraRAM, DSP, BUFG, and transceivers with their types. Keyboard navigation works in the table.
- Or, on the Boards tab, choose a board and its revision; the latest board file version is the default.
- Choose the folder to create the project in, and create it.
The wizard writes hdl.json, rtl/, constraints/, sim/ and a constraints file in the target's format with the board's clock and pins, turns the HDL environment on and opens the project.
A post-synthesis project type is not offered, because the Vivado flow does not start from a netlist.
Where the parts and boards come from
| Source | How it is read | State |
|---|---|---|
| Project IceStorm, Project Trellis, Apicula, Project X-Ray, openFPGALoader | Their device and board databases where your tools installed them | Verified (Linux): 742 parts and 127 boards read; iCE40 UP5K and ECP5 25F projects created and built to bitstreams; the Arty A7 example from Digilent's board files built with openXC7 and its testbench passing |
| AMD Vivado | A Tcl script run by Vivado in batch: its parts, its board files, the board store, and the folders in neuralInverse.hdl.vivado.boardRepoPaths for company boards | Kit shipped: the catalogue Tcl is tested against emulated Vivado commands; not yet run against Vivado |
| Altera Quartus Prime | quartus_sh | Kit shipped; Quartus rows carry no resource counts until a Quartus release is probed |
| Microchip Libero SoC, Lattice Radiant | Not offered: neither documents a part list in batch mode | The wizard says how to write the part number by hand |
A table of 12,003 parts was drawn in about 130 ms in the tests (filter 8 ms, sort 24 ms).
On Windows, vendor launchers that are batch files (such as vivado.bat) are started through cmd.exe with escaped arguments. That is modelled in unit tests, not run on Windows.
Company board files
Set neuralInverse.hdl.vivado.boardRepoPaths to the folders of your company's Vivado board files. They appear on the Boards tab beside AMD's, as Vivado reads them.