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Running Quartus + Questa on Apple Silicon

The current methods to run an Intel FPGA workflow on Apple Silicon involve two possibile approaches:

• Using a WoA Virtual Machine: Performance is terrible (already in amd64 Windows platforms is terrible, adding two virtualization layers on top of it leads to eternal compilation times) + space wasted for all the Microsoft bloatware
• Using a Docker Container: Performance is better than WoA, but the USB drivers are not working

Running Linux on UTM with Rosetta enabled should tackle these problems

Disclaimer for Baremetal installation

This guide could possibly work also when installing Debian directly on the Mac with Asahi Linux, but it is not recommended for beginners: with the standard installation procedure the Linux Kernel uses a default page size of 16K, and the rosetta binary is not designed to run with this page size. By recompiling the Linux Kernel to use 4K page sizes it should work flawlessly, but expect slower perfomance and/or higher power usage

rikka0w0

The Digilent JTag uses FT2232, but its configuration EEPROM contains secrete data needed to be recoginzed by Xilinx ISE/Vivado. The following method only works on linux (tested on Ubuntu16.04), but the patched FT2232 doggle also works on Windows. Since WSL1 does not provide USB device access, the following method will not work for WSL1.

DONT use FT_Prog on offical Digilent cable, as it can trash the firmware! The offical eeprom contains secrete data that cannot be handled correctly by FT_Prog.

Here are steps to create a Digilent-like Jtag that can be used in Xilinx ISE and Vivado

1. Install softwares: sudo apt-get install libftdi1 ftdi-eeprom
2. Create a file "flash_digilent.conf" with the following content:

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#docker run --rm -it debian:stretch-slim bash -c "$(cat ./ghdl_stretch-gcc.sh)"

set -e

apt-get update -qq \
&& apt-get install -y curl gnat gcc g++ make zlib1g-dev lbzip2 flex autogen dejagnu texinfo \
&& mkdir gcc-srcs \
&& curl -L https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/archive/gcc-7_2_0-release.tar.gz | tar -xz -C gcc-srcs --strip-components=1 \
&& cd gcc-srcs \
&& ./contrib/download_prerequisites \

barentsen

sudo apt install libresample1 
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/liba/libav/libavutil52_9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libavutil52_9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/liba/libav/libswscale2_9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libswscale2_9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb
wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/gg2i5wszrqkhzy8/clickshare_01.07.01-79_amd64.deb?dl=0#
sudo dpkg -i clickshare_01.07.01-79_amd64.deb