Summer of FPGA: Installing Vitis/Vivado on Ubuntu.

RE: Summer of FPGA: Installing Vitis/Vivado on Ubuntu.

dmeads_70 — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 20:21:37 GMT

Still having troubl with the logs and journals being created in my home directory, even though the desktop file says Exec=/tools/Xilinx/Vivado/2020.2/bin/vivado -journal xilinx/logs/vivado.jou -log xilinx/logs/vivado.log

it puts the logs in the correct directory when I launch from the command line using "cd /xilinx/logs", and then "vivado", however not when I launch from the icon. Any tips?

RE: Summer of FPGA: Installing Vitis/Vivado on Ubuntu.

navadeepganeshu — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 18:33:39 GMT

Yup,...takes too long to install. If disk optimizer isn't disabled at the initial step of setup, never mind........it just takes forever.

RE: Summer of FPGA: Installing Vitis/Vivado on Ubuntu.

jc2048 — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 13:29:21 GMT

I can't give you any Linux hints. Sorry!

I'm a little bemused that Vivado is so sensitive to OS and even version. I've got Diamond (Lattice) and Quartus (Intel/Altera) running here quite happily on a Win 8.1 laptop. Neither are officially supported on 8.1 [they assume, reasonably, that anyone in a professional situation jumped from 7 to 10], but the programs don't seem to care and just work anyway. I think the only manual thing I had to do in each case was placing the icon on the desktop (I get that all the time with applications, so I'm used to it).

I'm going to be following this with interest. A while back, Randall did a giveaway of a couple of nice little Digilent boards with plain and simple Xilinx FPGAs, but I didn't apply because I was concerned I wouldn't be able to get Vivado going (and because it was a hugh download, even by the normal standards of this kind of EDA stuff). I did consider Linux, but I haven't used it much in recent years and I shy away from all the endless fiddling around (I want to be a hardware designer, not a sys admin!).

Why did you choose Ubuntu rather than one of the [perhaps more longterm stable] enterprise flavours?

RE: Summer of FPGA: Installing Vitis/Vivado on Ubuntu.

glennvanderveer — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 13:06:08 GMT

From my experience with various Linuxes (is that really a word?), I don't think sudo is the issue with your install (Installing on Ubuntu, at least using sudo, didn’t seem to do everything necessary. I don’t know if this is specifically an issue with using sudo or not, but here’s what to do next.) To me, this seems like an installer script error...