Chapter 1
Vivado Design Suite Overview
What is the Vivado Design Suite?
The AMD Vivado™ Design Suite is designed to improve producvity. This tool suite is architected
to increase the overall producvity for designing, integrang, and implemenng systems using
AMD UltraScale™, 7 series, AMD Versal™ devices, AMD Zynq™ UltraScale+™ MPSoCs, and AMD
Zynq™ 7000 SoCs. AMD devices are now much larger and come with a variety of new
technology, including stacked silicon interconnect (SSI) technology, up to 28 gigabyte (GB) high
speed I/O interfaces, hardened microprocessors and peripherals, analog mixed signal, and more.
These larger and more complex devices create muldimensional design challenges, when handled
incorrectly, that can prevent the achievement of faster me-to-market and increased
producvity. With the Vivado Design Suite, you can accelerate design implementaon with place
and route tools that analycally opmize for mulple and concurrent design metrics, such as
ming, congeson, total wire length, ulizaon and power. The Vivado Design Suite provides you
with design analysis capabilies at each design stage. This allows for design and tool seng
modicaons earlier in the design processes where they have less overall schedule impact, thus
reducing design iteraons and accelerang producvity.
The Vivado Design Suite replaces the ISE Design Suite. It replaces all of the ISE Design Suite
point tools, such as Project Navigator, Xilinx Synthesis Technology (XST), implementaon, CORE
Generator tool, Timing Constraints Editor, ISE Simulator (Vivado simulator), Vivado, Chip Scope
Analyzer, Power Analyzer, FPGA Editor, PlanAhead design tool, and SmartXplorer. All of these
capabilies are now built directly into the and leverage a shared scalable data model. Built on the
shared scalable data model of the Vivado Design Suite, the enre design process can be executed
in memory without having to write or translate any intermediate le formats, which accelerates
runmes, debug, and implementaon while reducing memory requirements. The AMD Vis™ IDE
can be launched from Vivado. This is designed to be used for the development of embedded
soware applicaons targeted towards embedded processors.
All of the Vivado Design Suite tools are wrien with a nave tool command language (Tcl)
interface. All of the commands and opons available in the Vivado integrated design
environment (IDE), which is the graphical user interface (GUI) for the Vivado Design Suite, are
accessible through Tcl. The Vivado Design Suite also provides powerful access to the design data
for reporng and conguraon as well as the tool commands and opons.
You can interact with the Vivado Design Suite using:
Chapter 1: Vivado Design Suite Overview
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