With ISE Design Suite10.1, Xilinx has also simplified the process of determining optimal implementation settings. Once the pin assignments have been completed, PinAhead provides the ability to export I/O port information through either comma separated value (CSV) files or via VHDL or Verilog headers. PinAhead technology facilitates early and intelligent pinout definition to eliminate many of the pinout-related changes that typically happen downstream by performing design rule checks during interactive pin placement. PinAhead technology simplifies the complexities of managing the FPGA-PCB interface. Included at no additional cost, PlanAhead Lite features PinAhead technology, an intuitive solution designed to simplify the complexities of managing the interface between the target FPGA and PCB. With the availability of the PlanAhead Lite tool in ISE Foundation software, users have access to a subset of the powerful floorplanning and analysis capabilities of the PlanAhead design and analysis tool. PlanAhead Lite and strategy-based implementation SmartXplorer technology also provides tools that allow users to monitor each run with individual timing reports. SmartXplorer technology leverages distributed processing across multiple Linux machines to enable even more implementation runs per day, and up to 38 percent faster performance by leveraging distributed processing and multiple implementation strategies. (Click this image to view a larger, more detailed version) SmartXplorer technology addresses timing-closure and productivity issues. Significant to this new release is the introduction of SmartXplorer technology, developed specifically to address the top challenges of the design community – timing-closure and productivity. The ISE Design Suite 10.1 delivers significantly faster implementations with an average of 2X faster run times than its predecessor, thereby allowing designers to complete more turns per day.
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This is a single unified release providing FPGA logic designers, embedded designers, and DSP designers with immediate access to the company”s entire line of design tools with full interoperability. The folks at Xilinx have introduced version 10.1 of their ISE Design Suite. So it is imperative that FPGA design tool environments keep pace with the device capabilities for which they are targeted. Combined with their traditional benefits of extreme flexibility and programmability, as well ease-of-design, FPGAs are, in many cases, the best option for a wide variety of demanding, cost-sensitive and dynamic applications in computer, communications, consumer and automotive markets. No longer are FPGAs considered only a scaled-back prototyping platform today”s multi-million-gate devices offered at competitive price-points are fully capable of powering high-performance, high-volume products. Today, FPGA design is as sophisticated as any fixed-architecture implementation alternative, with gate counts and manufacturing processes pushing the leading edge. In this article, author Philippe Garrault presents a variety of strategies which – when coupled with the new capabilities provided by the Xilinx ISE Design Suite 10.1 – can significantly reduce implementation tool runtimes. Editor”s Note: See also the related “How To” design article: Strategies for minimizing Xilinx implementation tool runtimes.