Vivado
| Vivado Design Suite | |
|---|---|
Xilinx Vivado Design Suite 2014.2 with Block Design panel (center) and project navigation tree (left) | |
| Original author(s) | Xilinx |
| Developer(s) | AMD |
| Initial release | April 2012 |
| Stable release | 2024.2.2
/ March 12, 2025 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux |
| Available in | English |
| Type | EDA |
| License | WebPACK Edition: no-cost for selected (smaller) devices Other editions: commercial |
| Website | https://www.amd.com/en/products/software/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/vivado.html |
Vivado Design Suite is a software suite for synthesis and analysis of hardware description language (HDL) designs, superseding Xilinx ISE with additional features for system on a chip development and high-level synthesis (HLS). Vivado represents a ground-up rewrite and re-thinking of the entire design flow (compared to ISE).
Like the later versions of ISE, Vivado includes the in-built logic simulator. Vivado also introduces high-level synthesis, with a toolchain that converts C code into programmable logic.
Replacing the 15 year old ISE with Vivado Design Suite took 1000 man-years and cost US$200 million.