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Xilinx Synthesis Technology User Guide

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

Getting Help<br />

If you are working from the command line on a Unix system, XST<br />

provides an online Help function. The following information is<br />

available by typing help at the command line. XST’s help function can<br />

give you a list of supported families, available commands, switches<br />

and their values for each supported family.<br />

• To get a detailed explanation of an XST command, use the<br />

following syntax.<br />

help -arch family_name -command command_name<br />

where:<br />

♦ family_name is a list of supported <strong>Xilinx</strong> families in the<br />

current version of XST.<br />

♦ command_name is one of the following XST commands: run,<br />

set, elaborate, time.<br />

• To get a list of supported families, type help at the command line<br />

prompt with no argument. XST will display the following<br />

message<br />

--> help<br />

ERROR:Xst:1356 - Help : Missing "-arch ".<br />

Please specify what family you want to target<br />

available families:<br />

spartan2<br />

spartan2e<br />

virtex<br />

virtex2<br />

virtex2p<br />

virtexe<br />

virtexea<br />

xbr<br />

xc9500<br />

xc9500xl<br />

xpla3<br />

8-10 <strong>Xilinx</strong> Development System

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