Launch Vivado - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Tutorial: Design Flows Overview (UG888)

Document ID: UG888
Release Date: 2020-11-18
Version: 2020.2 English

To launch Vivado, do the following: On Linux:
- 1. Change to the directory where the lab materials are stored.
```
cd <Extract_Dir>/Vivado_Tutorial
```
  2. Launch the Vivado IDE.
```
vivado
```
- On Windows:
  1. Before clicking the desktop icon to launch the Vivado tool, configure the icon to indicate where to write the vivado.log and vivado.jou files.
  2. Right-click the Vivado <version> Desktop icon and select Properties from the popup menu.
  3. Under the Shortcut tab, set the Start in value to the extracted Vivado Tutorial directory, as shown in the following figure:
```
<Extract_Dir>/Vivado_Tutorial/
```
  4. Click OK to close the Properties dialog box.
  5. Double-click the Vivado <version> Desktop icon to start the Vivado IDE.