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====== Install Cable Drivers (Linux Only) ======
//The Xilinx Unified Installer does not install the USB drivers required to recognize an FPGA board on a Linux system. As such, it must be done manually after the tools have been installed.//

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In order to install Linux cable drivers, first navigate to the following directory in a console window:

<code><Vivado Install>/data/xicom/cable_drivers/lin64/install_script/install_drivers/</code>

By default, the //"<Vivado Install>"// directory is the //"/opt/Xilinx/Vivado/<version>/"// directory, where <version> represents the Vivado version number.

From within this directory, run the **"./install_drivers"** command as a super-user. Once this command completes successfully, the required drivers will be installed.

**NOTE**: Some older versions of Vivado may require that the install_drivers command be extracted from a TAR file before use.
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In order to use the USB drivers with a serial terminal, each user that will be using serial terminals must be added to the dialout group. Serial terminals can be very useful for debugging FPGA designs that implement a USB-UART controller.

The current user can be added to the dialout group with the following command:

<code>sudo adduser $USER dialout</code>

Note that the above only adds the current user. In order to add a different user (including a user without super-user permissions), use the following command instead, with "<username>" replaced with the name of the user to be added.

<code>adduser <username> dialout</code>
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