February 27, 2023

Xilinx Zynq - Installing Vivado 2022.2

I just finished mistakenly installing 2022.1.2 thinking it was the latest available. It was the latest thing offered to me by the "Xilinx information center" which pops up to nag me every time I log in. So, let's first figure out how that gets launched and erradicate it.

I look in .login, .bashrc, and other such places with no luck. Apparently the thing is called "xic", but is not on my path. I run xfce on linux. I go to Settings, Session and Startup, Application Autostart. I find a checkbox there for it and uncheck it. That should do it, but we shall see.

Download and install 2022.2

Start at the Xilinx downloads page. The latest version is front and center. I give my email and password and download the linux installer (a .bin file). I run this. It wants my email and password again. I select "Vitis" (which includes Vivado) and away it goes.

Starting at 5PM. I go out for the evening, and when I get home at 10:30 it is all finished sucessfully.

I final message in a popup says "to use Versal ACAP tools, please run the script installLibs.sh in the scripts directory which requires root privilege.

Some local final steps

I edit my bin/vivado script so it runs 2022.2.

I go to /u1/Xilinx, edit the script "copy_board_files" and rerun it. It looks like this: 

SRC=/u1/Xilinx/Vivado/2019.1/data/boards
NEW=/u1/Xilinx/Vivado/2022.2/data/boards

cp -var $SRC/board_files $NEW
cp -var $SRC/board_parts $NEW
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