/singularity-xilinx-vivado-vitis

Singularity for Xilinx Vivado / Vitis

Verified Environment

  • Host OS: Ubuntu Server 22.04
  • Singularity-CE version 4.0.0-jammy
  • Vivado ML Edition / Vitis Core Development Kit 2023.2
  • Over 400GB free HDD space

Preparation

  • Download FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_2023.2_1013_2256.tar.gz from download page
  • Put it in the same directory

Build

sudo singularity build xilinx_2023.2.sif xilinx.def

Creating the Links

ln -s xilinx_2023.2.sif vivado
ln -s xilinx_2023.2.sif vitis
ln -s xilinx_2023.2.sif vitis_hls

Running the Tools

./vivado
./vitis
./vitis_hls

You can also run Vivado on M1(ARM) Mac

  1. Install Lima, XQuartz, and Rosetta
  2. Create an Apptainer Container
$ limactl start template://apptainer --vm-type=vz --rosetta --memory=8 --disk=400
  • Next, select Open an editor... and add/change the following settings:
mounts:
  - location: "~"
    writable: true  # append

# append to the end
ssh:
  forwardX11: true
  forwardX11Trusted: true
  1. Build the Vivado/Vitis SIF Image
# Log into the VM
$ limactl shell apptainer

# Add Swap (Required)
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
$ sudo chmod 600 /tmp/swapfile
$ sudo mkswap /tmp/swapfile
$ sudo swapon /tmp/swapfile

# Prepare for SIF image build
$ git clone https://github.com/jin0g/singularity-xilinx-vivado-vitis
$ cd singularity-xilinx-vivado-vitis
$ mv /PATH/TO/FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_2023.2_1013_2256.tar.gz ./

# Build the SIF image
$ sudo apptainer build xilinx_2023.2.sif xilinx.def
  1. Launch Vivado
$ apptainer exec xilinx_2023.2.sif vivado