Vivado 2022.1 and SDK

[Eran Zeavi]

Hello,

I installed the unified Vitis Vivado per the instructions here:

https://digilent.com/reference/learn/programmable-logic/tutorials/zedboard-getting-started-with-zynq/start

So far so good up to section 8. Launch SDK . This menu does not exist on Vivado 2022.1

I could not find documentation that would help me.

 

Any idea ?

 

Thanks !

 

Terence

 

 

[zygot]

Xilinx abandoned the SDK with the 2019.2 version of the tools. You need to use Vitis which makes your tutorial out of date.

You might consider using an earlier version of the tools to get started.. perhaps Vivado 2019.1. The Zedboard has been around for longer than Vivado so really any tool version will work. If you are just trying to learn how to use the tools it would be easier to use the version that your tutorials and demos are using. The basic concepts haven't changed but lots of things get depreciated with tool version releases, and this can complicate and confuse anyone trying to follow an out of date tutorial. ZYNQ based development is doubly affected by tool version incompatibilities because it always involves a HW plus SW design effort. Though Vitis was supposed to integrate all of the software tools better than previous versions, if you want ot use Linux, you still need to install Petalinux separately and use a Linux based OS Host for developments. Microsoft has been trying to subsume Linux into Windows for a while now so, in theory, this situation might eventually change.

As for new releases of FPGA tools breaking old design source code as well as vendor IP; this is just the way that it is, and has always been across the programmable device market space. Edited May 13, 2022 by zygot

[artvvb]

Hi @Eran Zeavi,

Try this tutorial instead: https://digilent.com/reference/programmable-logic/guides/getting-started-with-ipi

Xilinx replaced SDK with Vitis starting in version 2019.2. You might also need to go back and install Vitis through Vivado's "Help -> Add Design Tools and Devices" menu, which reruns the installer.

Thanks,

Arthur