For Series 7 FPGAs from Xilinx we currently use the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite.

Vivado is free as in beer but not free as in freedom, this is the only non-FOSS tool used.

We are using "Vivado Design Suite - HLx Editions". You will also need the free WebPack license.

Vivado does not support the Spartan 6 or Spartan 3 series of parts (such as found on the Atlys. MimasV2 and Opsis boards), for these FPGAs you will need to use Xilinx ISE instead.

The Xilinx Vivado toolchain is 24GB and will take many hours to download.

Go to https://www.xilinx.com/support/download.html - click download.

You will be required to create a free account and log in.

16GiB download -- do this if you already have a local copy of the file already.

The offline install is called "All OS installer Single-File Download".

From the download page click through to download the Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2017.3_1005_1.tar.gz file (A link is provided below but Xilinx regularly breaks it).

currently it is 2 files:

• Vivado Design Suite - HLx Editions - 2019.2 Xilinx_Vivado_2019.2_1106_2127.tar.gz

• Vivado Design Suite - HLx Editions Update 1 - 2019.2 Xilinx_Vivado_Vitis_Update_2019.2.1_1205_0436.tar.gz

Once downloaded, untar the file and follow the "Installing Vivado" instructions, below.

100MiB initial download, allows you to select specific features -- do this if you're downloading from scratch.

The online install is called "Linux self-extracting Web Installer". From the download page click through to download the Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2017.3_1005_1_Lin64.tar.gz file (A link is provided below but Xilinx regularly breaks it).

• Vivado HLx 2017.3: WebPACK and Editions - Linux Self Extracting Web Installer (BIN - 100.61 MB)
• MD5 SUM Value: d80a2721483fd5b1a6a77c481f98f988

Unpack this to get a shell script -- Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2017.3_1005_1_Lin64.bin, run chmod +x the .bin file and follow the "Installing Vivado" instructions.

Vivado can be installed to any path that has enough free space.

We recommend not installing as root, to do this you can either;

• (Preferred) Create /opt/Xilinx and make it owned by your user via;

  sudo mkdir /opt/Xilinx
  sudo chown $USER:$USER /opt/Xilinx

or

• (Advanced users only) Use another path owned by you and set the XILINX_PATH environment variable.

To actually install;

• If when downloading you went with Option 1 - Install via running xsetup from the extracted tarball
• If when downloading you went with Option 2 - Install via running running the .bin file you downloaded

Select "Vivado HL WebPack" (the free version)

We only need the minimal features -- untick all but the following:

• Design Tools / Vivado Design Suite / Vivado
• Devices / Production Devices / 7 Series /

"Installing Vivado screen shots" (Older version, should be the same...)

You may need to install libtinfo5 for it to work.

You will need to create a Xilinx account in order to obtain a license, after you’ve created an account, navigate to the following link: https://www.xilinx.com/member/forms/license-form.html

You will need to generate the license of type: Vivado Design Suite: HL WebPACK 2015 and Earlier License. If you have previously generated a license you should be able to find it somewhere on this page too.

This license will be emailed to you, copy the file to ~/.Xilinx/Xilinx.lic.

There should now be an icon for Vivado on your desktop. Regardless, you should ensure that the Vivado GUI runs.

Depending on how you installed it, you can also run it from the command line:

source /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2017.3/settings64.sh
vivado

Check you have a valid license: Help -> Manage License

Maybe a CLI install option:: https://xxoo.ws/0xdc/xilinx-fpga/blob/master/README.md

If Java errors right at the start, sudo apt install libxrender1:amd64