FPGA - Xybo board - getting started with Vitis

I have what is labeled "Xilinx Vitis 2021.2" on my desktop icon. There is also "Vitis HLS 2021.2" as another icon, as well as "Vivado 2021.2". All very confusing.

One one hand I tend to be pleased the Xilix is steadily working on their software tools, not to mention that they make them available as the "WebPack" for free. On the other hand it is annoying to be finding tuturials and videos that use Vivado that are now of uncertain utility. Odds are lots can be learned from these "older" sources of information, but it adds to the difficulty a newcomer has to this FPGA business.

Try it

Now a new dialog appears and I select "create application project". A page attempts to explain "platform, system project, and domain" but it is simply confusing at this point. Now I must "select a platform" either selecting on from a repository or creating one from hardware. Selecting one does nothing, so we go with creating one. This leads to a bunch of choices, none of which look like "Zybo". They are all defined by files with an xsa extension in /u1/Xilinx/Vitis/2021.2/data/embeddedsw/lib/fixed_hwplatforms These are all zip archive data, so searching them is useless.

I had hoped to find Zybo come up quickly as a menu selection, but things apparently are not that straightforward. Here are some links that may be worth studying.

• Youtube: Hello world with Zynq, Vivado 2020 and Vitis
• Vitis 2020.2 on the original Zybo
• Hackster.io: Vitis 2021.1 and the Zybo-Z7-20