Somehow allow parallels to "see" connected FPGA boards

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...

 

How did you make vivado recognize fpga in vivado?

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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 ?