Vivado Tutorial

In this tutorial we are designing, simulating and implementing a 4-bit binary adder.
Four full adders are used to build the 4-bit parallel adder.

Cin

Full Adder

Cout

y3

y2

x3
C3

Cout

s3

y1

x2
C2

s2

y0

x1

x2

s1

x0

C1

Cin

s0

Start Vivado
Click on create new project

Click Next
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Enter the project name and location and click Next

Select RTL Project and click Next

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Click Create File

Enter File name and click OK

Click Create File again

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Enter the name of the file and click OK

Click Next

Click Next
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Click add Files

Browse to the Nexys4_Master.xdc file and select it and click OK

Click Next

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Enter the Family, Package, and speed grade and the select the device from the list
and click Next

Click Finish

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Enter the ports for the PA and select FA

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Enter the ports of the FA and click OK

Click on FA module and the code for it

Then save it. If you have any syntax error you will get a message alerting you to
that
Click on the PA module to enter its code

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After entering the code save it

Simulation:
Click on Add Sources in the Project Manager

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Select Add or Create Simulation Sources and click Next

Click Create File

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Enter the file name and click OK

Click Finish

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The simulation module does not take ports so just click OK

Click Yes

Click on Sim_PA module to open it. Then enter the simulation code.
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Save it

After selecting Sim_PA

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Click on Run Simulation and select Run Behavioral Simulation

To display the results in decimal select the signal and right click on it then from
radix select unsigned.
Clicking on Elaborated Design will give you the block diagram of your design

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Implementation:
Pin Assignment:

Nexys4_Master.xdc contain all the resources of Nexys4 board commented. Open this
file and uncomment the resources used in the project. Make sure to use the project
signals for each pin.

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Switch 3 dowto 0 are used for input x , switches 7 downto 4 are used for input y,
and swich 8 is used for input Cin

LEDs 3 downto 0 are used to display the output s and LED 4 is used to display
output Cout
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After making all the necessary pin connections save the file

Click on Run Synthesis

After selecting Run Implementation, click OK

Select Generate Bitstream and connect your board to the computer. Then Click OK

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Select Open Hardware Manager and click OK

Click on Open Target and select Auto Connect

Click on Program device and select xc7a100t_0

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After making sure the correct bit file is selected click program

Change the inputs and observe the results. For this example all the inputs are
1s(15+15+1) and the result is 31.

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