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====== Installing Vivado, Vitis, and Digilent Board Files ======
===== Introduction =====
This guide walks through the process of installing and configuring the Vivado and Vitis development environments. These applications are used to develop projects to run on Digilent FPGA Development Boards. In addition to the installation, Digilent's Board Support Files will be installed, which are used to make the process of creating a new project significantly faster. In addition, the board files make it significantly easier to add a variety of peripherals (such as DDR memory), as well as a Zynq processor (for Zynq boards) to a project.

**Important:** //Digilent-provided example projects target specific versions of Vivado and Vitis or Xilinx SDK and it may be difficult or impossible to port them to other versions. Take care when choosing a version. If you want to install Vivado version 2019.1 or older, and Xilinx SDK instead of Vitis, check out [[installing-vivado-and-sdk]] instead.//

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===== Prerequisites =====
  * 60+ GB of free hard-drive space. The actual number varies depending on the specific tools and device support installed.

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===== Guide =====
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**Note:** //The remaining steps of this guide present how to launch Vivado and Vitis once they are installed on your system.//
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