write_dsa failed

[oska874]

As the picture shows,when I try to write dsa in vivado 2018.2, it shows the error that "Project property dsa.name needs to be set before generating a DSA.", how to solve this problem?

[BUPTHELLO]

As the picture shows,when I try to write dsa in vivado 2018.2, it shows the error that "Project property dsa.board_id and dsa.name needs to be set before generating a DSA.", how to solve this problem?

when I use "set_property dsa.board.id xc7z020clg400-1 [current_project]" command to set dsa.board.id, it shows error that "The object 'project' does not have a property 'dsa.board.id", how to solve it ?

[randyh62]

Hello oska874 and BUPTHELLO,

It looks like the form of your write_dsa tcl command is not correct. The Instruction in Step 5.1 is to use the following Tcl command:
write_dsa -force -include_bit /<project dir>/<project name>/<project name>.dsa

As the project and the block design were both supposed to be called zynq7_board, the name should resolve to something like:
/<project dir>/zynq7_board/zynq7_board.dsa
Where <project_dir> is the path to the Vivado tools project.

The platform name is automatically assigned based on the block design name when you "Enable platform interfaces" link as described in Step 3.2 of Lab1 of the Tutorial. This results in the following Tcl command:
set_property pfm_name zynq7_board [get_files {/<project_dir>/zynq7_board/zynq7_board.srcs/sources_1/bd/zynq7_board/zynq7_board.bd}]

This name can be found under the PFM_NAME property in the Source File Properties window as discussed in Step 3.2.

The attached image shows the output DSA file in the zynq7_board project directory as expected:

Can you retry the steps in Lab 1?

[nlbutts]

I'm having the exact same problem. I followed the tutorial to the letter. The project is stored in:
c:\projects\xilinx\zynq7_board
I run the following command and get the following error:

write_dsa -force -include_bit /projects/xilinx/zynq7_board/zynq7_board.dsa
INFO: [Vivado 12-4895] Creating DSA: /projects/xilinx/zynq7_board/zynq7_board.dsa ...
WARNING: [BD 5-230] No cells matched 'get_bd_cells -of {}'
ERROR: [Common 17-55] 'get_property' expects at least one object.
Resolution: If [get_<value>] was used to populate the object, check to make sure this command returns at least one valid object.
ERROR: [Vivado 12-5878] Failed to generate hpfm file for BD File: C:/projects/xilinx/zynq7_board/zynq7_board.srcs/sources_1/bd/zynq7_board/zynq7_board.bd
ERROR: [Common 17-53] User Exception: Unable to get hpfm file from project property dsa.hpfm_file or from the BD itself.

[ghost]

Can you attach your vivado.log and vivado.jou files for the lab exercise so I can look it over? You may need to step through the lab again to get a clean copy. Just the log for Lab 1 would be great. Thanks.

[randyh62]

Can you attach your vivado.log and vivado.jou files for the lab exercise so I can look it over? You may need to step through the lab again to get a clean copy. Just the log for Lab 1 would be great. Thanks.

[nlbutts]

There are numerous vivado.log and vivado.jou logs:

nlbutts@RyzenMintVM:~/projects/xilinx/zynq7_board$ find . -name *.log
./zynq7_board.runs/impl_1/runme.log
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_proc_sys_reset_0_0_synth_1/runme.log
./zynq7_board.runs/synth_1/runme.log
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_proc_sys_reset_0_1_synth_1/runme.log
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_clk_wiz_0_0_synth_1/runme.log
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_proc_sys_reset_0_2_synth_1/runme.log
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_processing_system7_0_0_synth_1/runme.log
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_xlconcat_0_0_synth_1/runme.log
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_proc_sys_reset_0_3_synth_1/runme.log
./zynq7_board.cache/ip/2018.2/966d543e0ccdfe39.logs/runme.log
./zynq7_board.cache/ip/2018.2/3a06fe5122cb2c02.logs/runme.log
./zynq7_board.cache/ip/2018.2/e12d2e9bc3c3eee3.logs/runme.log
./zynq7_board.cache/ip/2018.2/63bb014a7b76630e.logs/runme.log
./zynq7_board.cache/ip/2018.2/fec62037164ddb1c.logs/runme.log
./zynq7_board.cache/ip/2018.2/74e6882188d5d3ed.logs/runme.log
./zynq7_board.cache/ip/2018.2/c2e5117a78ce0869.logs/runme.log
nlbutts@RyzenMintVM:~/projects/xilinx/zynq7_board$ find . -name  vivado.jou
./zynq7_board.runs/impl_1/vivado.jou
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_proc_sys_reset_0_0_synth_1/vivado.jou
./zynq7_board.runs/synth_1/vivado.jou
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_proc_sys_reset_0_1_synth_1/vivado.jou
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_clk_wiz_0_0_synth_1/vivado.jou
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_proc_sys_reset_0_2_synth_1/vivado.jou
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_processing_system7_0_0_synth_1/vivado.jou
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_xlconcat_0_0_synth_1/vivado.jou
./zynq7_board.runs/zynq7_board_proc_sys_reset_0_3_synth_1/vivado.jou

Which one(s) do you want?

[randyh62]

The Vivado journal and log files would be in the directory from which you launched Vivado on a Linux system, or in the <user>/AppData/Roaming/Xilinx/Vivado folder on Windows. They would be called vivado.jou and vivado.log. The journal file is a simple list of the commands you used when using Vivado, and the log file is those same commands with response transcript from the tool. I am attaching my vivado.jou journal file for Lab 1 (renamed to vivado.txt to post here). You can use this to check against your own journal.
vivado.txt

[peter2chang]

Hi,
I am using Vivado 2017.4, and it seems there is no "Platform Interfaces" option, so I set all PFM properties with the Tcl commands provided in the tutorial.
I got an error msg " can't read "sdsoc::ps_instance": no such variable" after running write_dsa command. Do you know how to solve this issue? And for Vivado 2017.4, if Tcl command is the only way to set the PFM properties and is there any way to check the PFM properties values that set previously? Thank you in advance!

[randyh62]

This tutorial was written for 2018.2 and will be updated shortly for 2018.3. The document you should use for 2017.4 is UG1236: https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx2017_4/ug1236-sdsoc-platform-tutorial.pdf

[peter2chang]

Got it, thanks.