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[Barna]

Hi,

I am the GUI developer. As per our project requirements, we need to programme the FPGA device directly from the GUI without using the ISE, Vivado, or iMPACT tools.Now I am trying with TCL commands on the xtclsh prompt, but I am not able to programme the FPGA device. So please tell me if there is any possibility to programme the FPGA device using TCL commands. and please help me to complete this requirement.

[goodplay]

Probably better to ask on the dedicated xilinx site https://www.xilinx.com/support.html

[DipakJ27]

You can use TCL commands to load bitstreams, configure registers, and perform other operations on the FPGA device.

Here are the general steps on how to program the FPGA device through the TCL command using the xtclsh prompt:

1. Open the xtclsh prompt.
2. You can do this by running the following command from a terminal window:
   xtclsh
3. Load the bitstream.
4. The bitstream is the file that contains the configuration data for the FPGA device.
5. You can load the bitstream using the following command:
   source <bitstream_file>
6. Configure registers.
7. The FPGA device has a number of registers that can be used to control its behavior.
8. You can configure registers using the following command:
   set_property <register_name> <value>
9. Verify the programming.
10. Once you have loaded the bitstream and configured the registers, you can verify the programming by reading the values of the registers.
11. You can do this using the following command:
    get_property <register_name>

Here is an example of how to program the FPGA device using TCL commands:

source /path/to/bitstream.bit
set_property CLOCK_FREQ 100
set_property DATA_WIDTH 8

This will load the bitstream from the file /path/to/bitstream.bit, set the clock frequency to 100 MHz, and set the data width to 8 bits.

I hope this helps!