• Review Versal™ product and system architecture​
• Select target device​
• Identify performance requirements​
• Identify power requirements​
• Identify memory requirements
• Identify I/O requirements​
• Identify boot and configuration requirements
• Identify isolation and security requirements
• Configure isolation and subsystems in ACE
• Review and select PCI Express® and Ethernet protocols​
• Partition the design into minimum static items and kernels​
• Identify additional design requirements

• Create and validate the base design in Vivado^TM using partitioning guidelines  ​
• Export emulation XSA if needed
• Create the boot image format (BIF)
• Generate hardware platform

PetaLinux Flow^{* *}Superseded by the AMD Embedded Development Framework (EDF). Recommend using the EDF Linux Flows.

• Create new PetaLinux project using DSC from Vivado
• Modify project settings
• Modify Linux kernel settings
• Build entire system including firmware
• Build boot collateral

EDF Linux Flows

• AMD Embedded Development Framework (EDF)
• Custom Hardware Development
• Generate System Device Tree
• Generating a new Yocto Machine Configuration
• Operating System Integration and Development (Image build)
• Customizing the Kernel Configuration
• Editing the RootFS Configuration
• Customizing the Kernel in Your Yocto Build

See also the Versal Custom Thin Platform Extensible System