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An Adapteva Parallella development board with an AMD/Xilinx Zynq FPGA SoC, representative of the hobbyist hardware the Vivado free tier targets.
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AMD walled off Linux Vivado behind a paid tier. The free FPGA tier is now Windows only.

Vivado 2026.1 introduces a five-tier licensing model. The free BASIC tier supports Windows only; Linux requires the paid CORE tier. FPGA hobbyists are pushing back.