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Xilinx Synthesis Technology User Guide

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XST <strong>User</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />

Constraints<br />

Improving Results<br />

# GND: nb_of_gnd<br />

# VCC: nb_of_vcc<br />

# FlipFlops/Latches: nb_of_ff_latch<br />

# FD...: nb_of_fd...<br />

# LD...: nb_of_ld...<br />

# Tri-States: nb_of_tristates<br />

# BUFE: nb_of_bufe<br />

# BUFT: nb_of_buft<br />

# IO Buffers: nb_of_iobuffers<br />

# IBUF: nb_of_ibuf<br />

# OBUF: nb_of_obuf<br />

# IOBUF: nb_of_iobuf<br />

# OBUFE: nb_of_obufe<br />

# Others: nb_of_others<br />

The constraints (attributes) specified in the HDL design or in the<br />

constraint files are written by XST into the NGC file as signal<br />

properties.<br />

XST produces optimized netlists for the CPLD fitter, which fits them<br />

in specified devices and creates the download programmable files.<br />

The CPLD low-level optimization of XST consists of logic<br />

minimization, subfunction collapsing, logic factorization, and logic<br />

decomposition. The result of the optimization process is an NGC<br />

netlist corresponding to Boolean equations, which will be<br />

reassembled by the CPLD fitter to fit the best of the macrocell<br />

capacities. A special XST optimization process, known as equation<br />

shaping, is applied for XC9500 devices when the following options<br />

are selected:<br />

• Keep Hierarchy no<br />

• Optimization Effort 2<br />

• Macro Preserve no<br />

The equation shaping processing also includes a critical path<br />

optimization algorithm, which tries to reduce the number of levels of<br />

critical paths.<br />

4-6 <strong>Xilinx</strong> Development System

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