README.md

Getting Started with Versal™ AI Edge Gen2 with Vitis™ Unified IDE See Vitis Development Environment on xilinx.com

Version: Vitis 2025.2 and Vivado 2025.2

Welcome to Vitis Getting Started!

This tutorial showcases the important steps to build the AIE kernels as well as Host application and running the design on the hardware and hardware emulation.

The tutorial uses pre-built Platforms from Vitis installation path to compile AIE kernels.

The main aspect of this tutorial is to showcase build and run flow of this tutorial using Pre-built Yocto EDF images.

Please go through the Makefile provided in each tutorial to better understand the Vitis tool flow.

Setup and Initialization

IMPORTANT: Before beginning the tutorial, ensure you have:

• Installed AMD Vitis™ 2025.2 software and set PLATFORM_REPO_PATHS to the value <Vitis_tools>/base_platforms.
• Created directory <path-to-design>/yocto_artifacts and set environment variable YOCTO_ARTIFACTS to that path.
• From Embedded Development Framework (EDF) downloads page package 25.11:
  • Download amd-cortexa78-mali-common_meta-edf-app-sdk, run the script and set path output to <path-to-design>/yocto_artifacts/amd-cortexa78-mali-common_meta-edf-app-sdk/sdk.sh.
  • Download VEK385 OSPI Image and move into <path-to-design>/yocto_artifacts/.
  • Download amd-cortexa78-mali-common_edf-linux-disk-image (SD wic), unzip and move into <path-to-design>/yocto_artifacts/.
  • Download amd-cortexa78-mali-common_vek385_qemu_prebuilt, unzip and move amd-cortexa78-mali-common_vek385_qemu_prebuilt into <path-to-design>/yocto_artifacts/.

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