1. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
Vivado Debug
Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

2. Three Easy (?) Steps

3. Selecting Nets and Attaching the ILA

4. Using Attributes

5. Debug Wizard Maybe you don’t want to mark up your nice HDL model
Once the design is synthesized, you can open up the Synthesized Model and select nets
Assuming the ones you want haven’t been renamed or optimized away!

7. Inserting the Debug Core (ILA)

8. Next, Implementation!

9. Program the Device Generate the bitsteam
Open the hardware manager and program the part (you should see an associated probe file)
Once programmed, you should see an ILA as part of the PL
If not already open, right-click on the ILA to open the ILA Dashboard
Now you’re ready to drive in the Debug Derby! 

10. Debug Demolition Add probes to your trigger window
Play around with trigger configurations
View waveforms after capture
Just remember, your design clock keeps running!

11. Summary Synthesize the design (with XCF file!)
Open the synthesized design and mark nets for debug. Should show up as “unassigned”
Run “Set up Debug” process. This will wire the “probes” to the ILA core and update your synthesized design
Run implementation, generate the bitstream and open the Hardware Manager

12. Summary (cont)
Now, as you program the part you should see a probe list and the ILA core
The Debug Dashboard should open and you can assign debug probes to the trigger
Then configure the trigger specification
Run the ILA trigger and enjoy!

13. Synthesized Design with ILA Core after “Set up Debug”

14. ILA Core and Debug Probes

15. ILA Trigger

16. Waveforms after Trigger