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UG640 (v 12.2) July 23, 2010
Chapter 5: System Generator Compilation Types
As shown below, you may select the Bitstream compilation by left-clicking the
Compilation submenu control on the System Generator block dialog box, and selecting the
Bitstream target.
System Generator uses XFLOW to run the tools necessary to produce the configuration
bitstream. Execution of XFLOW is broken into two flows, implementation and configuration.
The implementation flow is responsible for compiling the synthesis tool netlist output
(e.g., EDIF or NGC) into a placed and routed NCD file. In summary, the implementation
flow performs the following tasks:
1. Combines synthesis results, core netlists, black box netlists, and constraints files using
NGDBuild.
2. Runs MAP, PAR, and Trace on the design (in that particular order).
The configuration flow type runs the tools (e.g., BitGen) necessary to create an FPGA BIT
file, using the fully elaborated NCD file as input.
XFLOW Option Files
The implementation and configuration flow types have separate XFLOW options files
associated with them. An XFLOW options file declares the programs that should be run for
a particular flow, and defines the command line options that are used by these tools. The
Xilinx ISE® software includes several example XFLOW options files. From the base
directory of your Xilinx ISE software tree, these files are located under the xilinx\data
directory. Three commonly used implementation options files include:
balanced.opt;
fast_runtime.opt;
high_effort.opt.
Note:
By default, System Generator uses the balanced.opt file for the implementation flow, and
bitgen.opt file for the configuration flow.
Sometimes you may want to use options files that use settings that differ (e.g., to specify a
higher placer effort level in PAR) from the default options provided by the target. In this
case, you may create your own options files, or edit the default options files to include your
desired settings. The Bitstream settings dialog box allows you to specify options files other
than the default files.
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