The Vivado® Design Suite provides an array of design entry, timing analysis, hardware debug, and simulation capabilities all encompassed in a single state of the art integrated design environment (IDE). This flow enables both the integrated and enterprise verification needs for all supported simulators.
Vivado enables behavioral, post-synthesis and post-implementation (functional or timing) simulations for the fully integrated Vivado Simulator and 3rd party HDL simulators. Time spent on simulation early in the design cycle helps identify issues early and significantly reduces turnaround times compared to later stages of the flow.
To aid flexibility in user verification environments, Vivado provides support for both an integrated environment as well as provides scripts to use with external verification setups.
The Vivado IDE supports all major simulators in integrated mode for interactive simulation users and script mode for advanced verification engineers.
Vendor | Simulators | Interactive | Scripts |
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Aldec | Active-HDL, Riviera-PRO |
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Cadence | Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES), Xcelium Parallel Simulator | ![]() |
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Mentor Graphics | ModelSim, Questa Advanced Simulator | ![]() |
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Synopsys | VCS | ![]() |
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Xilinx | Vivado Simulator | ![]() |
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The Vivado integrated design environment (IDE) provides users with the ability to explore multiple simulation strategies using simulation sets. The simulation sets allows users to manage the verification process within the Vivado IDE and creates different simulation flows depending on the verification needs.
The Vivado integrated design environment (IDE) provides users with the ability to explore multiple simulation strategies using simulation sets. The simulation sets allows users to manage the verification process within the Vivado IDE and creates different simulation flows depending on the verification needs.
Feature highlights:
Name | File Size | Modified Date |
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Vivado Design Suite Tutorial: Logic Simulation | 2 MB | 04/04/2018 |
ISE to Vivado Design Suite Migration Guide | 1 MB | 04/04/2018 |
Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide | 10 MB | 04/04/2018 |
Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Release Notes, Installation, and Licensing | 2 MB | 04/11/2018 |