Vivado-and-Vitis-Install.md

-TODO how to install vivado/vitis on the ubuntu development environment 
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+Vivado and Vitis are installed together using an installer provided by Xilinx. 
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+- Download Xilinx Unified Installer 2020.1: [Linux Self Extracting Web Installer](https://www.xilinx.com/member/forms/download/xef.html?filename=Xilinx_Unified_2020.1_0602_1208_Lin64.bin)
+> Note: You might need to make a free Xilinx/AMD account to download the installer.
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+- Run the installer and follow the step to install Vitis and Vivado
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+> NOTE: this will eat up around 120 GB of your storage, so you what you need to do 
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+2. after the installation run the following in a command shell, which set up the environment to run in a specific command shell.
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+   ```plaintext
+   source <Vitis_install_path>/Vitis/2020.1/settings64.sh
+   source /opt/xilinx/xrt/setup.sh
+   ```
+3. Finally, start Vitis by entering in the command shell
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+   ```plaintext
+   Vitis
+   ```