Installing the Vitis Software Platform - 2025.1 English - UG1400

1. Go to the AMD Adaptive Computing Downloads Website.
2. Download the installer for your operating system.
3. Run the installer, xsetup on Linux, or xsetup.exe on Windows, which opens the Welcome screen. Extract the installer package.
4. Click Next.
5. If installing with the web installer, the Select Install Type screen is displayed. Enter your AMD user account credentials, and select Download and Install Now. Click Next to open the Accept License Agreements screen of the installer. Accept the terms and conditions by clicking each I Agree check box. Click Next to open the next screen (only required on the web installer).
6. The Select Product to Install screen is displayed.
   1. To install the full Vitis Software Platform for embedded software and application acceleration development, choose Vitis and click Next to open the Vitis Unified Software Platform screen of the installer. This full Vitis installation includes Vivado, v++ and AI Engine toolchains.
   2. If you only need to perform software development for embedded processors, and require a small installation footprint, choose Vitis Embedded Development and click Next. If you downloaded the Vitis Embedded installer, this is the only option available on the installer.
7. Customize your installation by selecting design tools and devices (this step is only for the full Vitis installation).

   The default Design Tools selections are for standard Vitis Unified Software Platform installations, and include Vitis, Vivado, Vitis HLS and Vitis Model Composer. You do not need to separately install Vivado tools.

   You can enable Vitis IP Cache to install cache files for example designs found in the release. This is not required; when selected, the files are installed at <install_dir>/<release>/Vitis/data/cache/xilinx.

   You can enable the devices required for your development.

   Important: For the Vitis acceleration flow, the following device choice is required for installation: Devices > Install devices for Alveo and Edge acceleration platforms
8. Click Next to open the Accept License Agreements screen of the installer and accept the terms as appropriate.
9. Click Next to open the Select Destination Directory screen of the installer.
10. Specify the installation directory, review the location summary, review the disk space required to ensure there is enough space, and click Next to open the Installation Summary screen of the installer.
11. Click Install to begin the installation of the software.

After a successful installation of the full Vitis unified software, a confirmation message is displayed, with a prompt to run the installLibs.sh script.

1. Locate the script at <install_dir>/<release>/Vitis/scripts/installLibs.sh, where <install_dir> is the location of your installation, and <release> is the installation version.
   Note: This script is not required on Windows.
2. Run the script with sudo privileges as follows:

   sudo installLibs.sh

The command installs a number of necessary packages for the Vitis tool based on the OS of your system.