Create an FSBL for the Arm Cortex-A53 Core

An FSBL for booting the lab application must be created within the Platform Project. The FSBL will be generated in a later section with the SD card boot mode. The FSBL loads on the Arm® Cortex®-A53 processor and subsequently, the FSBL loads the lab application on the Cortex-A53 core. In Vitis, the FSBL is created as part of the platform project.

Launch Vitis™ .
Set the workspace path.
Note: For this walk-through the workspace path is assumed to be C:\Xilinx\Key_Revocation_Lab.
Select File > New > Platform Project.
- The Create a New Platform window opens.
- Enter Key_Revocation_Platform for the platform project name as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 1. Create a Platform Project
Select Next.
Select the Create a new platform from hardware (XSA) tab as shown in the following figure.
Select the prebuilt zcu102 xsa file from the Hardware Specification drop-down menu.
Note: If your system needs an xsa file that is not listed, these can be built within Vivado (see Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC: Embedded Design Tutorial (UG1209)).
Make the following selections within the Software Specification section of the window:
1. Operating system: standalone
2. Processor: psu_cortexa53_0
3. Architecture: 64-bit
Figure 2. Select XSA File and Setup the Platform
Select Finish.

Vitis creates the board support package (BSP) and an FSBL application. It might take a moment for the Vitis to compile and create the FSBL and BSP.

Note: In this example, the application name fsbl_a53 is to identify that the FSBL is targeted for the application processing unit (APU) (the Arm® Cortex®-A53 Core).