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Vivado MCP Native for VS Code

io.github.arthurzxy/vivado-mcp-native

Native MCP server for controlling AMD/Xilinx Vivado on Windows and Linux via persistent Tcl.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Vivado MCP Native in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "vivado-path",
      "description": "VIVADO_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "vivado-mcp-output-encoding",
      "description": "VIVADO_MCP_OUTPUT_ENCODING",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "vivado-mcp-native": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "vivado-mcp-native"
      ],
      "env": {
        "VIVADO_PATH": "${input:vivado-path}",
        "VIVADO_MCP_OUTPUT_ENCODING": "${input:vivado-mcp-output-encoding}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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