Vivado AI Assistant — anyone actually got access? (2026.1 EA, VS Code + Copilot, MCP-based)
AI integration into an FPGA IDE is not new — Raptor IDE from RapidSilicon already shipped with RapidGPT. But then RapidSilicon died and RapidGPT transformed to chipnexus.ai
Today I found out AMD has one too. An ad email came in about a free course on the Vivado AI Assistant, 11 September, in Italian. No thanks.
Searching the internet, the most that can be found is a one-page spec sheet:
https://docs.amd.com/v/u/en-US/vivado-ai-asst
And it is not product documentation — it is a course spec sheet
It seems it uses VSCode - means it is NOT integrated with Vivado?
It also uses GitHub Copilot as AI
I have Vivado 2026.1 installed and see nothing AI related in it.
Question: has anyone actually got the Vivado AI Assistant running? Is it EA or under NDA, or is there an extension somewhere I have not found?
Posted Aug 28, 2026, 7:35 AM UTC