We have finally moved from Xilinx ISE to Xilinx Vivado

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

See http://c65gs.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/migrating-from-xilinx-ise-to-xilinx.html for details.

The main change will be the need to install Vivado instead of ISE.

Building is still via Makefile.

A huge thanks to Kenneth for his work in making this possible, and fixing a number of significant problems along the way.

Paul.

[Gurce Isikyildiz]

Just wondering if it's recommended to stick to a specific version of Vivado? As I see there are several available online:

https://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/vivado-design-tools.html

For now, I'll assume that it's ok to download and install the latest (2018.2.2). If it bites me in the bum, I'll downgrade to whatever everyone else is using :)

[Gurce Isikyildiz]

Just to confirm, using version 2018.2 worked fine to synthesise the bitstream (I didn't bother adding update 2018.2.1 and update 2018.2.2 to the vivado install).