Author: AMD Engineer Aravind Babu This article introduces the prerequisites for using PetaLinux on any platform. PetaLinux is an embedded Linux software development kit (SDK) primarily used for FPGA-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs or FPGA designs. Installation Requirements Minimum workstation requirements: 8 GB RAM (minimum recommended for AMD tools) 2 GHz CPU clock or equivalent frequency … Read more
Please ensure that you have correctly installed the required tools and that your environment meets the requirements. Hardware Requirements This tutorial corresponds to the Versal ACAP VCK190 and VMK 180 evaluation boards. The examples in this tutorial have been tested using the VCK190 ES1 evaluation board. To use this tutorial, you will need the following … Read more
This article is authored by AMD engineer Longley Zhang. In AMD SoC devices (AMD Zynq™ 7000 SoC, AMD Zynq UltraScale+™ MPSoC, AMD Versal™ Adaptive SoC), a common boot method is to load an image from external memory (QSPI Flash, eMMC, etc.) to boot directly into Linux. However, during board debugging, it is often necessary to … Read more
Introduction At DesignLinx Hardware Solutions, we use PetaLinux to build custom Linux images to support our clients’ tailored products. I must admit, I was skeptical when I first heard about PetaLinux. My professional background is in embedded Linux, having worked on numerous projects that included pure Yocto/Bitbake/OE and integrating Linux on various SoC platforms. Yocto … Read more