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ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition

The ISE® Design Suite: Logic Edition includes exclusive tools and technologies to help achieve optimal design results.  These include PlanAhead™ for advanced FPGA floorplanning, ChipScope™ Pro for in-circuit verification, and SmartGuide for faster incremental implementation.

ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition Benefits
Achieve Greater Designer Productivity

From product installation through design verification, ISE Design Suite 11 helps you make maximum use of your time and design resources. The ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition provides:

  • A complete design environment for your RTL-based design needs with exclusive technologies such as:
    • ChipScope Pro and the ChipScope Pro Serial I/O Toolkit for extensive on-chip verification
    • ISE™ Simulator, a complete, full-featured HDL simulator integrated within the ISE design environment
    • PlanAhead, a complete environment for IO pin planning, floorplanning and detailed graphical design analysis
  • Multi-processor support allowing distributed processing to speedup implementation
  • Goal-based implementation allows automatic assignment of settings to deliver results specific to your design objectives (e.g., Performance, Runtime, Area, or Power)
  • Industry first IEEE encryption for Virtex-5 FPGA Hard-IP simulation models provides an average 2X faster simulation runtime compared with SmartModels
Attain Breakthrough Performance, Power and Cost Benefits

ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition 11 delivers easy to use technologies to help you achieve even the most aggressive performance goals in less time:

  • SmartGuide reduces incremental runtimes by up to 2X by leveraging previous successful implementations
  • SmartXplorer leverages distributed processing in a Linux network to identify optimal implementation settings for a design and achieve up to a 38% improvement in design performance
  • PlanAhead Design and Analysis Tool, providing complete design control for timing closure, allowing multiple views of a design’s timing critical regions and ultimately providing the means to divide a larger design into smaller blocks and focus efforts towards optimization of each module.

ISE Design Suite provides the tools and technologies to help you manage power for your FPGA design with early accurate power estimation and with power optimization:

  • Advanced synthesis and implementation algorithms deliver an average 10% lower dynamic power
  • With goal-based implementation, the ISE Design Suite offers a simple, one-step process to specify power optimization
  • Free, downloadable XPower Estimator spreadsheets for the leading Xilinx FPGAs lets customers quickly and easily estimate their project's power consumption with device-specific spreadsheet tools.
  • XPower Analyzer included with all configuration of ISE performs detailed design-based power consumption analysis, including importing simulation files for detailed design accuracy
  • Find answers to your power-related questions at Xilinx Power Solutions, www.xilinx.com/power
Focus on Design Differentiation

The ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition is a comprehensive suite supporting the Base methodology for optimal logic and connectivity design. The ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition deliver an integrated development environment of software tools, configuration wizards, and IP that facilitates your design and utilizes all of the flexibility offered by a programmable platform. The ISE Design Suite helps remove design hurdles enabling you to more easily achieve your design goals.

Xilinx CORE Generator™ System, included in all Editions of the ISE Design Suite, accelerates design time by providing access to highly parameterized Intellectual Properties (IP) and Architecture Wizards with built-in intelligent for functions like I/O and Clocking for Xilinx FPGAs. The available user-customizable IP functions range in complexity from commonly used functions, such as memories and FIFOs, to system-level building blocks, such as filters and transforms. Using these IP blocks can save days to months of design time. The highly optimized IP allows FPGA designers to focus efforts on building designs quicker while helping bring products to market faster.

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Documentation

Data Sheets, User Guides, and other technical documentation

This data sheet provides a summary of the ISE® Design Suite:Logic Edition features and benefits

These software documents support all Editions of the ISE Design Suite

This guide describes Virtex-5 device pinouts and package specifications; it also includes pinout diagrams and thermal data

This user guide provides users with information for using the ChipScope™ Pro IP cores
and tools.

IP

Predefined set of optimized building blocks and IP for common functions

IP Cores, Reference Designs, Design Services, and Application Notes

The Memory Interface Generator (MIG) is a free software tool used to generate memory controllers and interfaces for Xilinx® FPGAs

Architecture wizards assist in the creation and implementation of FPGA architecture features like Clocking and I/O functions. Wizards, unlike templates, offer the designer customization of hard and soft logic through a step-by-step online guidance and help.

Videos and Webcasts

Demonstrations videos to help you get started and make the most of your ISE® Design Suite experience

Live presentations and technology demos

Training

State-of-the art tutorials take you from design entry to verification and debugging

Learn the best design practices from the pros and understand the subtleties of the Xilinx design flow.

High-quality education services designed by experts in programmable logic design

Services and Support

Easy access to technical Support, downloads, forums, and device specific support

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