Description

Why do I see synthesis failures when using a Windows OS for synthesis?

When synthesizing a design including a TPG or a VPSS on windows, I get a synthesis error related to the AXI4-Stream interface:

[Synth 8-448] named port connection 's_axis_video_TVALID' does not exist for instance 'inst' of module 'bd_12f8_csc_0_v_csc' ["g:/ex/v_proc_ss_0_ex.srcs/sources_1/bd/vps_ex/ip/vps_ex_v_proc_ss_0_0/bd_0/ip/ip_6/synth/bd_12f8_csc_0.v":205]

What is the reason for this issue?

Solution

This is a known issue with the Vivado HLS compiler on Windows (the TPG and VPSS are HLS-based IPs).

The first thing that users should always attempt when synthesizing designs that contain HLS Based IP such as the TPG or VPSS is to reduce the path as much as possible.

• i.e. Make the project name as short as possible, and place it in the shortest possible path (C:\x).
• See also (Xilinx Answer 52787).

In additional there are some patches that can also help work around these issues in some cases.

• Vivado 2017.3 - Users should update to Vivado 2018.1.
• Vivado 2017.4 - Users can download a patch from (Xilinx Answer 70445) to work around the issue.
• Vivado 2018.1 - This issue is fixed in 2018.1

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