Can't Program Xilinx VC707 Board in Single-Core SoC Tutorial about esp

[jzuckerman]

If you open the Vivado Hardware manager from the GUI, is it able to auto-detect the board? If not, it could be an issue with a setting on the board or on your machine.

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When I try and auto-detect a target in Vivado in windows (the host machine), the board shows up. However, when I try to do the same in the VM, it does not show up.

I have done this with a different board in a different VM in the past and it worked properly. Do you think there may some driver I need or is there anything else you can think of that could help?

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I can successfully program the board from outside the VM, in Windows, by copying the Vivado Project to the host machine and opening it from Vivado 2019.2 there.

However, once I set up Minicom (back inside the VM - it does detect the USB cables), I went to the next section called "Testing on FPGA" and tried running the commands mentioned. From either commands (both make fpga-run and make fpga-run-linux), I get the exact same response:

    CC esplink
    OBJCP /home/vboxuser/esp/socs/xilinx-vc707-xc7vx485t/soft-build/leon3/ram.srec
    OBJCP /home/vboxuser/esp/socs/xilinx-vc707-xc7vx485t/soft-build/leon3/systest.bin
ESPLink address 192.168.1.7:46392

It then seems to just hang there. Nothing is output in the Minicom. Do you have any idea what could be wrong here?

I have tried this both with and without Ethernet connected between the board and PC, as I am not sure which is needed. Could you please tell me which cables (UART, JTAG or Ethernet) are needed for this stage?

[jzuckerman]

JTAG (FPGA programming), UART (console output), and Ethernet (ESPLink) cables are all needed for ESP. For ESPLink, make sure that the Ethernet interface you are using on your PC is in the same subnet as the IP address shown. by ESPLink (i.e. 192.168.1.X).