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A few weeks ago Xilinx released Vivado 2014.1 and SDK 2014.1 Let's install them and find out if anything has changed and what is new. Here are the release notes.
We will add the following lines to the .bashrc file:
Licensing
For new purchases of the Vivado Licenses beginning in 2014.1, Vivado Licenses use an activation-based licensing scheme. Activation-based licensing offers robust security and return features, as well as pave the way for future licensing enhancements. For more information see the Vivado release notes (chapter 5).
Activation based licenses
Instead of requiring a file to be present to authorize a machine, Activation uses a trusted area on the client or server’s hard-drive to store the authorization credentials. This trusted storage area will automatically be installed and initialized beginning with the Vivado 2014.1 installer. When the Vivado tools look for a license feature, they are allowed to run if this trusted storage area contains the proper authorization.
License compatibility
Both certificate and activation-based licenses will be recognized by Vivado 2014.1 and later versions. If the license versions and dates are valid for the tool version being used, it does not matter whether the license is certificate or activation-based. For example, a certificate-based license issued during a previous Vivado release, which is still within the 1-year subscription period will authorize Vivado 2014.1 or later software. No conversion to a new license methodology will be necessary during the remainder of a previous subscription period.
Getting a new license file
Although we can continue using our old license file I see some advantages using an activation based license. Let's get one. Follow the instructions in part 7 to generate and download a new license file. This time we select an activation based license.
After generating the license file, it is downloaded to our $HOME/Download directory. The file is called Xilinx.lic and looks like this.
To me it looks like an XML file. Let's rename it to Xilinx.xml.
Using the Vivado License Manager
The Vivado License Manager is provided on computers with the Xilinx Vivado tools loaded. Use the command vlm to start the license manager.
-> vlm
1. Select Load Design.
3. Click "Activate License" and find the license file (Xliinx.xml).
4. Click Open to load the XML file to the trusted storage area.
Starting Vivado
-> vivado &
Here is the new start up window.
If you get a segmentation error when starting Vivado see part 8 for an explanation.
Starting SDK
-> xsdk &
We are ready to use the Vivado 2014.1 release. I have rerun lab1 and lab2 without any major problems. Almost everything worked as expected. Here are two small hiccups.
1. When starting Vivado the following errors were reported.
Easily fixed by changing the permissions for the 2014.1 directory.
-> sudo chmod 777 $HOME/.Xilinx/Vivado/2014.1
2. When running an application in SDK the following window was displayed.
Easily fixed by deleting the run configuration and creating a new one.
svenand September 27, 2014 10:24 AM PDT I don't have an answer for you. As you can see I am using VirtualBox to run Vivado and there it works for me.
Nuri September 27, 2014 12:38 AM PDT hello sven,
i have a problem while loading activation based licence to ubuntu running on vmware. Error massage is "unable to load licences rights into trusted storage". when i search through xilinx forums, it is advised that prompting "xliclientmgr" command with licence.xml file. here is the response of that command.
ERROR: API function 60009 failed, result 51412
Response processing failed.
Exit(4) error when processing response.
According to xilinx forums, this error only occurs on VMs and there is no exact solution. What should i do now ?
Thorsten June 5, 2014 07:43 PM PDT Hi,
have you managed to generate a BSP for Petalinux with Vivado/SDK 2014.1 ?
Somehow I get an error - with the simple explanation "Error generating bsp sources ...
Best, Thorsten
wch May 30, 2014 10:54 AM PDT Yes, followed Part 8, then It's working now!! Thanks so much.
wch May 30, 2014 10:48 AM PDT Dear Sir,
I did follows
"We will use the openJDK Java installation instead of the one that came with the Vivado installation."
and now it working!! thanks so much.
Svenand May 30, 2014 10:47 AM PDT That was a bad advice. See part 8 (Starting Vivado) of my blog for an explanation.
Sven
wch May 30, 2014 10:31 AM PDT Thanks for good tutorials, I got this error.
work around:
uninstall by removing the /opt/Xilinx, ~/.Xilinx
install again but still same problem.
Could you please advise?
****** v2014.1 (64-bit)
**** SW Build 881834 on Fri Apr 4 14:00:25 MDT 2014
**** IP Build 877625 on Fri Mar 28 16:29:15 MDT 2014
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