Vivado installation on Linux

Introduction

Vivado is the new FPGA design tool from Xilinx. It replaces ISE and XPS tools for new Xilinx's products. By default no Armadeus board has a new FPGA supported by Vivado, but, with the APF6, we can use Artix7 on a daughter board (or with Xilinx dev-kit), thanks to PCIe, and enjoy this new Xilinx tool. This page is a tutorial on how to install Vivado on Debian Linux host computer.

Note: Vivado can't be used with Spartan products, it starts with the "7" FPGA serie (artix7, virtex7, zynq, kintex7, ...)

Installation

Requirements

• unsure that Bash is the default shell:

$ ls -al /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 févr. 10 14:49 /bin/sh -> bash

• otherwise:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Download

• Download the file on xilinx website, note that you will need an account (free) to do that.

 Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2014.4_1119_1_Lin64.bin

Launch install

• To launch install simply type :

$ chmod 777 Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2014.4_1119_1_Lin64.bin
$ ./Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2014.4_1119_1_Lin64.bin

• Fill forms then wait for about 20 minutes

Launching Vivado

• Go to the installed directory:

$ cd /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2014.4

• Source the architecture shell file:

/opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2014.4$ source settings64.sh

• Then launch it:

/opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2014.4$ ./bin/vivado

JTaG probes

HS3

Digilent provide a JTAG probe to configure Xilinx FPGA named HS3.

Links

• Run Vivado 2013.4 on Debian