Somehow allow parallels to "see" connected FPGA boards

[GeorgiosK4]

I am an embedded developer and recently got my hands on a mac. When I install windows, the VM runs smoothly, vivado runs adequately as well (8 GB - VM... Can't expect it to smash it). However, I cannot directly upload the bitstream to my board because the VM does not see it... I have to resort to hacks and upload it by a terminal application through the native macOS to get my job done...

 

[MoldovanA]

How did you make vivado recognize fpga in vivado?

 

[GeorgiosK4]

That's exactly the problem and my suggestion.
The VM can't see the board at all.
You can save the generated bitstream in a shared folder and program the FPGA from a terminal app through the native macOS. The app is called openFPGAloader (found it on github). That's the best solution I found so far (besides switching to my ubuntu desktop rig)...

GitHub - trabucayre/openFPGALoader: Universal utility for programming FPGA

 

[MoldovanA]

I also saw someone say that you can have dual boot on Mac that allows you to use linux.Would that be a solution ?

 

[MoldovanA]

Also , is there any tutorial on how to use the app you provided ?Thank you very much!

 

[GeorgiosK4]

I suppose dual boot is an option, but not for ARM based macs as far as I know. Unfortunately there are no tutorials, but there are some examples on how to use it on the link.

 

[MoldovanA]

Hello!I tried to use the openFPGAloader and I got this error


openFPGALoader -b basys3 test3.bit
empty

Jtag frequency : requested 6.00MHz -> real 6.00MHz
Open file FAIL

Do you have any idea how to fix it ?