iMPACT
iMPACT Overview
iMPACT, a tool featuring batch and GUI operations, allows you to perform the following functions: Device Configuration and File Generation.
Device Configuration enables you to directly configure Xilinx® FPGAs or program Xilinx CPLDs and PROMs with the Xilinx cables (Parallel Cable IV, Platform Cable USB, or Platform Cable USB II) in various modes. In the Boundary-Scan mode, Xilinx FPGAs, CPLDs, and PROMs can be configured or programmed. In the Slave Serial configuration mode only FPGAs can be configured directly. In the Direct SPI mode select SPI serial flash (Numonyx (STMicro): M25P, M25PE, M45PE, Atmel: AT45DB, or Winbond: W25Q) can be programmed.
File Generation enables you to create the following types of programming files; System ACE CF, PROM, SVF, STAPL, and XSVF files.
iMPACT also enables you to do the following:
  •  Readback and verify design configuration data
  •  Debug configuration problems
  •  Execute SVF and XSVF files

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