The purpose of this page is to provide Xilinx-specific information related to available Canonical products and services.

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General Information

Canonical Website: https://canonical.com/
Contact Info: https://canonical.com/contact-us

Canonical is the company that produces the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system used around the world on millions of computers and devices from cloud to desktop to edge devices. Canonical is a UK based company that has been developing the Ubuntu operating system since 2004. Ubuntu is the number one choice of Linux operating systems for Innovators, smart IoT, machine learning, and AI scientists. Xilinx is proud to be partnered directly with Canonical to provide Ubuntu on Xilinx silicon.

Certified Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Xilinx Devices

Xilinx has partnered with Canonical Ltd to provide a Certified Ubuntu Image for use with select Xilinx evaluation boards. This partnership offers many benefits to our mutual customers including:

• Certified Ubuntu on popular Xilinx SoC evaluation boards

• Familiar Ubuntu Classic Desktop environment

• Extremely rich Debian based package availability

• Binary Linux distribution for ease of use and quick start evaluations

• Industry standard support options from Canonical for LTS including security patches

• An easy path to production using Ubuntu Core 20

• Simpler, less expensive customer engagements for chip down customers

• The ability to produce Accelerated designs using the best technologies from Ubuntu and Xilinx

Evaluation Boards

The Xilinx Certified Ubuntu images are provided by Canonical and can be download from http://ubuntu.com/download/xilinx . See the table below for links to the getting started guides for the various images.

For each device family, a common SD card image is provided that provides board-specific functionality with a common Ubuntu kernel and root filesystem.

Xilinx Snaps

Snaps are application packages for desktop, cloud and IoT that are easy to install, secure, cross‐platform and dependency‐free. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Canonical Snap Store. Xilinx maintains a set of snaps with the prefix “xlnx-” - For more information about the available Xilinx snaps, please refer to Snaps for Certified Ubuntu on Xilinx Devices .

Support Information

Need help with Ubuntu? There are a variety of support options available from Canonical, Xilinx, and the Ubuntu community.