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How To set up Vivado on MacOS

rscasny

I had someone contact me about the need to set up Vivado on a Mac. I don't get this question very often. I don't think it's directly supported.

If you have set it up on a Mac, I'd be interested in getting your comments/experiences to pass onto him.

Thanks.

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  • Set up a VMWare Fusion VM running Ubuntu 16 or 18.  This will only work well if the host Mac has 4 or more cores, more than 16 GB of RAM and more than 100GB storage available to the VM.  If the Mac cannot devote those resources to the VM at runtime, then the client would be better off getting a PC Laptop with a recent  i7, 32GB RAM,  500GB storage and setting it up on Ubuntu 16 or 18 and using it as a dedicated platform for Vivado.  GPU resources have no appreciable impact on Vivado's performance on the host.

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  • Set up a VMWare Fusion VM running Ubuntu 16 or 18.  This will only work well if the host Mac has 4 or more cores, more than 16 GB of RAM and more than 100GB storage available to the VM.  If the Mac cannot devote those resources to the VM at runtime, then the client would be better off getting a PC Laptop with a recent  i7, 32GB RAM,  500GB storage and setting it up on Ubuntu 16 or 18 and using it as a dedicated platform for Vivado.  GPU resources have no appreciable impact on Vivado's performance on the host.

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    I run Vivado and Vitis on a Ubuntu VM (running on Parallels) with 8192MB of RAM and 2 Processors devoted to the VM - this on my MacBook Pro (2Ghz quad core i5 with 16GB ram.)  Simultaneously, I run other apps on my Mac, admittedly not resource hogs though.  I've had no performance or other issues with doing so and I think it's a perfectly adequate setup for small/medium scale usage of these apps.  Going for broke with them, is almost certainly going to require a high-spec, dedicated PC to do so, even if it's MacOS based using virtualisation.  Virtualbox could be used as a free virtualisation engine if they don't want to lump out for Fusion or Parallels.  Elsewhere on E14 I've described how to set up Ubuntu to run Vivado/Vitis.