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AMD Virtual Cable

AMD Virtual Cable provides a means to access and debug your FPGA design without using a USB or parallel configuration cable.

Design Tools Support: Vivado Software
License: End User License Agreement
Device Support: Artix 7, Kintex 7, Kintex UltraScale, Virtex 7, Virtex UltraScale, Zynq 7000

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Product Description

Remote Debug using Vivado™ Design Suite.

AMD Virtual Cable is a TCP/IP-based protocol that acts like a JTAG cable and provides a means to access and debug your FPGA or SoC design without using a physical cable.

This capability helps facilitate hardware debug for designs that:

Have the FPGA in a hard-to-access location, where a "lab-PC" is not close by
Do not have direct access to the FPGA pins – e.g. the JTAG pins are only accessible via a local processor interface
Need to efficiently debug AMD FPGA or SoC systems deployed in the field to save on costly or impractical travel and and reduce the time it takes to debug a remotely located system

Key Features and Benefits

Ability to debug a system over an internal network, or even the internet
Debug via Vivado Logic Analyzer IDE exactly as if directly connected to design via standard JTAG or parallel cable
Zynq™ 7000 demonstration with Application Note and Reference Designs available in XAPP1251 - AMD Virtual Cable Running on Zynq 7000 Using the PetaLinux Tools
Extensible to allow for safe, secure connections
XVC protocol specification and example designs available on Github

Documentation

Vivado Release Notes

The most updated Release Note.

View Release Note

XAPP1251 - AMD Virtual Cable Running on Zynq 7000 Using the PetaLinux Tools (XAPP1251) (v1.0)

This application note shows how to get AMD Virtual Cable running on a Zynq™ 7000 device with a Linux operating system generated with the PetaLinux Tools.

View Application Note

UG908 - Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Programming and Debugging (UG908) (2014.4)

Vivado™ Design Suite User Guide : Programming and Debugging

View User Guide

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AMD Virtual Cable

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