Floorplanner

Xilinx Floorplanner is a graphical placement tool that provides"drag and drop" control over design placement within an FPGA.

Floorplanning is particularly useful on structured designs and data path logic. With the Xilinx Floorplanner, designers can see where to place logic for optimal results, placing data paths exactly at the desired location on the die.

The Xilinx Floorplanner enables designers to plan a design prior to or after using Place-and-Route (PAR) software. Invoking Floorplanner after a design has been placed and routed allows designers to view and possibly improve the results of the automatic implementation. In an iterative floorplan design flow, designers floorplan and place and route interactively.

The logic placement in the Floorplan window can be modified as often as necessary to achieve design goals. Iterations of a floorplanned design can be saved for use later as a constraints file during PAR.

 

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