Step 1: Prepare Board Installation Files

SDAccel™ provides the xbinstutility, that generates firmware and driver files for the target board plugged in the host computer. Run the following commands to prepare files for the target card installation. See xbinst Command Reference for more details on the xbinst utility.

Depending on the target location, some commands must be run with root or sudo privilege; otherwise, you would have to change access permissions to enable read access for all users on that system.

Use the following commands:


$ sudo mkdir /opt/dsa/xilinx'vcu1525_dynamic_5_0
$ sudo xbinst ---platform xilinx_vcu_1525_dynamic_5_0 -d

/opt/dsa/xilinx_vcu_1525_dynamic_5_0

You should see output similar to the following:

****** xbinst v2017.4 (64-bit)
  **** SW Build 2080852 on Sun Dec 10 18:06:50 MST 2017
    ** Copyright 1986-2017 Xilinx, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

INFO: [XBINST 60-895]    Target platform: /opt/Xilinx/SDx/2017.4/platforms/xilinx_vcu1525_dynamic_5_0/xilinx_vcu1525_dynamic_5_0.xpfm
INFO: [XBINST 60-267] Packaging for PCIe...
INFO: Adding section [FIRMWARE (3)] using: 'mgmt' (14548 Bytes)
INFO: Adding section [SCHED_FIRMWARE (5)] using: 'sched' (9488 Bytes)
Successfully completed 'xclbincat'
INFO: [XBINST 60-268] Packaging for PCIe...COMPLETE
INFO: [XBINST 60-667] xbinst has successfully created a board installation directory at /opt/dsa/ xilinx_vcu1525_dynamic_5_0.

Make a note of the file location on the programming computer because it will be required for programming the configuration memory at a later stage.