Steps in building/exporting the output for Zynq Zedboard from Vivado 2018.3.

$ mkdir ~/xilinx/projects/vpjs/[zed_top/zedboard/]

• Select Zedboard (create subdirectory)
• RTL project
  • “Do not specify sources at this time”
• Select Zedboard part, Finish

End result:

.
├── vivado.jou
├── vivado.log
├── vivado_pid5494.str
└── zedboard
    ├── zedboard.cache
    │   └── wt
    │       └── project.wpc
    ├── zedboard.hw
    │   └── zedboard.lpr
    ├── zedboard.ip_user_files
    ├── zedboard.sim
    └── zedboard.xpr

• Create Block Design (take all defaults)
  • Empty design, “+”
  • “ZYNQ7 Processing System”

End result:

.
├── vivado.jou
├── vivado.log
├── vivado_pid5494.str
└── zedboard
    ├── zedboard.cache
    │   └── wt
    │       └── project.wpc
    ├── zedboard.hw
    │   └── zedboard.lpr
    ├── zedboard.ip_user_files
    ├── zedboard.sim
    ├── zedboard.srcs
    │   └── sources_1
    │       └── bd
    │           └── design_1
    │               └── design_1.bd
    └── zedboard.xpr

design_1.bd:

{
  "design": {
    "design_info": {
      "boundary_crc": "0x0",
      "name": "design_1",
      "synth_flow_mode": "Hierarchical",
      "tool_version": "2018.3"
    },
    "design_tree": {}
  }
}

• Validate, error with M_AXI_GP0_ACLK
• Double click on design block graphic:
  • PS-PL Configuration
    • AXI Non Secure Enablement
      • GP Master AXI Interface
        • M AXI GP0 Interface (uncheck)
• Validate again (should pass)

• BLOCK DESIGN; design_1; Sources; right-click
• “Create HDL wrapper”, let Vivado manage wrapper

Primary output:

$ tree zedboard.srcs
zedboard.srcs
└── sources_1
    └── bd
        └── design_1
            ├── design_1.bd
            ├── design_1.bxml
            ├── design_1_ooc.xdc
            ├── hdl
            │   └── design_1_wrapper.v
            ├── ip
            │   └── design_1_processing_system7_0_0
            │       ├── design_1_processing_system7_0_0.xci
            │       └── design_1_processing_system7_0_0.xml
            ├── sim
            │   └── design_1.v
            ├── synth
            │   └── design_1.v
            └── ui
                └── bd_1f5defd0.ui

Majority of output under zedboard.ip_user_files/.

zedboard.runs/impl_1/design_1_wrapper.bit

End result:

$ unzip -l design_1_wrapper.hdf
Archive:  design_1_wrapper.hdf
02LvEiD+u+Kz8iWSDr/wPVMUtQtx/Up+iy67Wzp7LsT7w=
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
      861  05-20-2019 07:27   hwdef.xml
    66717  05-20-2019 07:27   design_1.hwh
     6451  05-20-2019 07:27   design_1_bd.tcl
   313654  05-20-2019 07:27   ps7_init.c
     4908  05-20-2019 07:27   ps7_init.h
   313050  05-20-2019 07:27   ps7_init_gpl.c
     4294  05-20-2019 07:27   ps7_init_gpl.h
  1760914  05-20-2019 07:27   ps7_init.html
    24922  05-20-2019 07:27   ps7_init.tcl
---------                     -------
  2495771                     9 files
$

$ petalinux-create \
  --type project \
  --name zed \
  --template zynq
$ cd zed
$

Output:

.
├── config.project
└── project-spec
    ├── attributes
    ├── configs
    │   ├── config
    │   └── rootfs_config
    ├── hw-description
    │   └── metadata
    └── meta-user
        ├── conf
        │   ├── layer.conf
        │   └── petalinuxbsp.conf
        ├── COPYING.MIT
        ├── README
        ├── recipes-apps
        │   ├── gpio-demo
        │   │   ├── files
        │   │   │   ├── gpio-demo.c
        │   │   │   └── Makefile
        │   │   └── gpio-demo.bb
        │   └── peekpoke
        │       ├── files
        │       │   ├── Makefile
        │       │   ├── peek.c
        │       │   └── poke.c
        │       └── peekpoke.bb
        ├── recipes-bsp
        │   ├── device-tree
        │   │   ├── device-tree.bbappend
        │   │   └── files
        │   │       └── system-user.dtsi
        │   └── u-boot
        │       ├── files
        │       │   └── platform-top.h
        │       └── u-boot-xlnx_%.bbappend
        └── recipes-core
            └── images
                └── petalinux-image-full.bbappend

$ petalinux-config --get-hw-description <dir containing .hdf file>