SDSoC - SDAccel Development Environment Common Features

SDSoC™ and SDAccel™ are now fully integrated with Vivado® Design Suite, no longer requiring a separate Vivado Design Suite image. The SDx™ Eclipse UI (SDx GUI) has been enhanced to increase user productivity. A background build no longer blocks additional GUI actions, and the new project creation wizard has been streamlined.

The 2017.4 release uses 5.x DSA platforms. These platforms enable dynamic configuration of the platforms.

The SDx compiler automatically optimizes away interface logic associated with unused DDR at linking time. Logic for capturing profiling and debug information may be added dynamically during the compilation process. Previously, this logic was required to already exist in the DSA. Dynamic platforms make better use of the available resources on the FPGA and improve compilation times by up to 45%.

Many of the new features provided in this release require the use of 5.x DSA. See SDAccel Migration Summary to update existing projects to to use the new 5.x DSAs and the associated features.