Install the 2019.1 Vivado HL Design Edition and Xilinx SDK

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This post walks through installing Vivado HL Design Edition with support for all Xilinx devices and installing the Xilinx SDK using the Download and Install Now option. It was written on May 6th, 2020.

Get and Start the Installer

These steps can be used regardless of how you got or started the installation.

To find and start the Windows Self Extracting Web Installer installer click:

Start Installing Xilinx’s Vivado 2019.1 on Windows 7 from the Windows Self Extracting Web Install at [link]
Instructions for actually finding and downloading Xilinx’s Vivado 2019.1 Windows Self Extracting Web Installer are at [link]

Prerequisites

You have a total of 76.76 GB disk free (16.32 GB for the download and 60.44 GB for the installation). Note: using these steps, the installer will leave only 30.14 GB installed. You could download the full image to an external drive and then run the installer and install Vivado onto your main drive if you don’t have space for the download and the disk space required during installation on your main drive.
You’ve downloaded and have started a Vivado 2019.1 Installer.
A Xilinx login. Get one at [https://login.xilinx.com/] (click the Create Account button).
A Vivado license. After getting a login, get one at [https://www.xilinx.com/getlicense]. You should have downloaded your Xilinx.lic file.

This post assumes you’re staring at this screen:

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Note on Time

It took 38 min to download the files on my 6-7 MB/sec connection,

21 minutes to install files on my T460 [link] with a memory upgraded to 32 GB [link]

Steps

Step 1 (optional): Click Preferences to set up a download proxy, set the number of cores the installer can use, and turn off disk optimization

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Click OK (or Cancel)

Step 2: Click Next

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Step 3:

A) Enter your User ID and Password

B) Leave Download and Install Now selected

C) Click Next

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Step 4:

A) Accept the Xilinx Inc. End User Agreement [link]

C) Third Party Software End User License Agreement [link]

D) Click Next

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Step 5:

A) Select Vivado HL Design Edition

B) Click Next

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Step 6: Use defaults and click Next

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Note: I’ve shown the options expanded to show what gets installed

Step 7:

WAIT!!! If you’re Installing as an elevated “local” user (your IT department may have you install as an elevated local computer Windows user) click All users before clicking Next. If you don’t do this, when you run Vivado as your “normal” logged-in user it won’t work and you will have to uninstall and reinstall Vivado with this option checked since you can’t correct this.

If you have no idea what I’m warning against, accept the defaults (provided nothing is red) and click Next

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