Installing Vitis and Vivado

Download/install

When you install Vitis, it will automatically install Vivado for you. To install Vitis, the first thing you will need to do is make an account with Xilinx here: https://www.xilinx.com/registration/create-account.html

Windows or Linux

Once you have an account there are two ways for you to install on Windows or on Linux. You can use a self extracting installer(simple) or use a single file download(slightly less simple) . Occasionally, with extremely slow internet, the self extracting installer will not complete the installation. The installation files can be found here: https://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/vitis.html

Once you have downloaded your preferred installer you follow the same steps with a few minor exceptions. You have to decompress the single file download to get to a usable form. If you are using the self extracting installer, you will have to log in again immediately after starting the installer. You will also need to select vitis on the 3rd page.

Continue through the installer until you get to the page titled Vitis Unified Software Platform. On this page, The only things that need to me checked are the Vitis and Vivado boxes, The Cable Drivers, and the devices that you are planning on using. If you finish the download and realized that you don't have all you devices you can go back through the download again and check them to install them. After that choose your installation directory and you are good to go.

Mac

Vitis is not supported on Mac computers. You will have to run it from an Os. Here is a link to a tutorial, it is for a different board but should work the same. http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~bumm/ELAB/Mac-Linux_Digilab_instructions_2017.html