Problem:

I started an EC2 instance running the FPGA Developer AMI, and tried to use Vivado to create a new project that wraps custom Verilog Designs for use in Amazon F1 FPGAs. So far, I cannot get Vivado to synthesize anything other than the Demo projects.

Steps:

1. On an EC2 instance running the FPGA Developer AMI: open a terminal, create a directory named "test_fpga", cd into the directory
2. run source ~/.../aws-fpga/hdk_setup.sh
3. run vivado
4. When Vivado starts, click "Create a new Project". Select all defaults
5. In the Tcl console run: aws::make_ipi
6. This creates a block diagram in which the f1_inst block is created and not connected to anything. click "Run Synthesis".

Vivado returns an error message saying that it cannot find modules such as Microblaze. The synthesis fails.

Conclusion:

Is there any documentation explaining how to create a new project and synthesize it?

I can synthesize the cl_hello_world example by running aws::make_ipi -examples cl_hello_world in the Tcl console, but I'm not asking how to customize one of these projects, I'm asking how to start a new Vivado project, add my own Verilog files, and connect those designs to the F1_inst block.

Please help, Thanks