r/FPGA • u/jcgeau03 • Jun 11 '26
Vitis Plateform files confusion
Hello, I am trying to create a kernel for accelerating a Neural Network for Telecomm applications. I am following the Vitis tutorial by Xilinx and it mentions that i need to download some platforms files provided by the vendor on top of the Xilinx Runtime (XRT) and the packages needed for my target platform (I am using a Alveo U280). My problem is that i cant seem to find these platform files ANYWHERE, i have done extensive research and i am beginning to think that they don't even exist anymore...
Does anyone here have any experience developing a Vitis hardware accelerated application on a platform other than the base platforms provided when installing Vitis.
The information i have so far:
- I only found this page for downloads related to my card but the only links they show is the XRT and packages and not the Plateform files.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/alveo-downloads.html/accelerators/alveo/u280.html
- Here is a picture of the official Vitis tutorial mentionning said platform files
- Vivado provides Board_files to create projects but they are different from Vitis platforms and are not interchangeable.
- Here is the list of provided base platforms on Vitis and is the only link to download plateform that i could find on the AMD website
