Vitis 2021.1 Embedded Platform for Zybo-Z7–20

The goal of this blog is to create a Vitis 2021.1 hardware accelerator platform for the Zybo-Z7–20 board from Digilent.

If you are interested to know how to use this platform to accelerate different compute-intensive tasks such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) on an FPGA-based embedded system, please refer to here.

Creating a Vitis platform has three main steps:

1. Hardware: Using Vivado to prepare the underlying hardware components and generate an XSA file
2. Software: Using the…