When handling FPGA bitstreams it would be nice to have a way to extract build and version information from them, especially when working with hardware-software designs. After generating a few different versions of a bitstream for a project it can be easy to lose track, especially when the design changes are not just incremental but alternative, e.g., to compare performance between possible implementations. In this post we will look at how to add build and version information to an FPGA…