System Generator for Digilent Nexys A7 board with Artix7 100T processor

I have the Digilent Nexys A7 board with the Artix7 100T processor. In System Generator, the boards with Artix7 200T processors are listed.

How can I use my board with the Xilinx blockset in MATLAB? I've purchased this board and have to go with it. Please help!

Answer 1

[Sachin Lodhi]

Hi Suhanya, the Digilent Nexys A7 board with an Artix-7 100T FPGA is not directly supported by Xilinx System Generator as a predefined target board. However, you can still use it with the Xilinx blockset in MATLAB by creating a custom System Generator configuration that matches the specifications of your Nexys A7 board. This approach requires "targeted" code generation, in which Xilinx System Generator for DSP generates the code for Xilinx blocks, and HDL Coder™ generates code from Simulink blocks.

This overall workflow for Xilinx System Generator within HDL Coder is described at this documentation page; pay particular attention to the requirements and limitations listed near the bottom of the page.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/hdlcoder/ug/code-generation-with-xilinx-system-generator-subsystems.html

Furthermore, the following example may be helpful when getting started. It illustrates the workflow, and elaborates on how this works: "HDL Coder™ generates HDL code from the Simulink blocks, and uses Xilinx System Generator to generate HDL code from the Xilinx System Generator Subsystem blocks."

https://www.mathworks.com/help/hdlcoder/ug/using-xilinx-system-generator-for-dsp-with-hdl-coder.html?s_tid=srchtitle