Vitis AI Prepare Development Environment 2021.2

Prepare Development Environment

Virtual Machine

On Win10 Pro PC, you can use:

• Oracle VirtualBox 6.1
  https://www.virtualbox.org/  
• VMware Workstation 16 Player
  https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-player/workstation-player-evaluation.html
  
• Microsoft WSL. See Trenz installation guide for WSL
  https://wiki.trenz-electronic.de/display/PD/Xilinx+Tools+and+Win10+WSL

Linux OS

Only supported OS are selected Linux distributions. You will need either native or virtual PC with Linux distribution.

Create new VM with Linux OS supported by Vitis 2021.2 tools.

Use English as OS language for your Linux System. Keyboard language can be any language.
Other languages may cause errors in PetaLinux build process.

Set Language

In Ubuntu 20.04, open terminal and type command:

$ locale

Language is OK, if the command response starts with:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Set Bash as Terminal in Ubuntu

In Ubuntu, set bash as terminal.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash shell

select:  no

Use of bash shell is required by Xilinx tools.

Install OpenCL Client Drivers

On Ubuntu, install OpenCL Installable Client Driver Loader by executing:

$ sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1
$ sudo apt-get install opencl-headers
$ sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-opencl-dev

Software Installation

Vitis 2021.2

Download  Vitis

Download the Vitis Tools installer from the link below https://www.xilinx.com/support/download.html

Install Vitis

If Vitis 2021.2 is not installed, follow installation steps described in:

https://docs.xilinx.com/r/en-US/ug1393-vitis-application-acceleration/Vitis-Software-Platform-Installation

After a successful installation of the Vitis 2021.2 and Vivado 2021.2 in /tools directory, a confirmation message is displayed, with a prompt to run the installLibs.sh script.

Script location:
/tools/Vitis/2021.2/scripts/installLibs.sh

In Ubuntu terminal, change directory to /tools/Vitis/2021.2/script  and run the script using sudo privileges:

$ sudo installLibs.sh

The command installs a number of necessary packages for the Vitis 2021.2 tools based on the actual OS version of your Ubuntu system.

Install  y2k22_patch-1.2 to Vitis

If not applied before, apply the Xilinx y2k22_patch-1.2 to Vitis 2021.2 https://support.xilinx.com/s/article/76960?language=en_US

Install License Supporting Vivado

In Ubuntu terminal, source paths to Vivado tools by executing

$ source /tools/Xilinx/Vitis/2021.2/settings64.sh

Execute Vivado License Manager:

$ vlm

From vlm, login to your Xilinx account by an www browser.

In www browser, specify Vitis 2021.2 license. Select Linux target.

Download xilinx license file and copy it into the directory of your choice.
~/License/vitis_2021_2/Xilinx.lic

In vlm, select Load License -> Copy License

Putty

The putty terminal can be used for Ethernet connected terminal. Putty supports keyboard, mouse and forwarding of X11 for Zynq Ultrascale+ applications designed for X11 desktop GUI.

In Ubuntu terminal, execute:

$ sudo apt install putty

To test the installation, execute putty application from Ubuntu terminal by:

$ putty &

Exit from putty.

Petalinux 2021.2

Download  Petalinux

Download the PetaLinux Tools installer from the link below https://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/embedded-design-tools.html

Install Required Libraries

Install Petalinux 2021.2. Follow guideline described in:
https://wiki.trenz-electronic.de/display/PD/PetaLinux+KICKstart#PetaLinuxKICKstart-PetaLinux2021.2

Before PetaLinux installation, check UG1144 chapter "PetaLinux Tools Installation Requirements" and install missing tool/libraries with help of script plnx-env-setup.sh attached to the Xilinx Answer Record 73296 - PetaLinux: How to install the required packages for the PetaLinux Build Host?
https://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/73296.html

Use this page to download script: plnx-env-setup.sh

The script detects whether the Host OS is a Ubuntu, RHEL, or CentOS Linux distribution and then automatically installs all of the required packages for the PetaLinux Build Host.

The script requires root privileges. The script does not install the PetaLinux Tools. Command to run the script:

$ sudo ./plnx-env-setup.sh

Perform update of your PetaLinux and additional installation libraries.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install iproute2 gawk python3 python build-essential gcc git make net-tools libncurses5-dev tftpd zlib1g-dev libssl-dev flex bison libselinux1 gnupg wget git-core diffstat chrpath socat xterm autoconf libtool tar unzip texinfo zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib automake zlib1g:i386 screen pax gzip cpio python3-pip python3-pexpect xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 libegl1-mesa libsdl1.2-dev pylint3 -y

Install Petalinux

and follow the directions in the "Installing the PetaLinux Tool" section of (UG1144).
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx2020_1/ug1144-petalinux-tools-reference-guide.pdf

To install petalinux do not start from shared folder, copy installer into your home directory.

$ mkdir -p ~/petalinux/2021.2

Copy  petalinux-v2021.2-final-installer.run into  ~/petalinux/2021.2

$ ./petalinux-v2020.2-final-installer.run

Source environment

$ source ~/petalinux/2021.2/settings.sh