I/O Planning Design Flows - 2020.2 English

Versal ACAP Board System Design Methodology Guide (UG1506)

Document ID
UG1506
Release Date
2021-02-04
Version
2020.2 English

The Vivado® IDE allows you to interactively explore, visualize, assign, and validate the I/O ports and clock logic in your design. The environment ensures correct-by-construction I/O assignment. It also provides visualization of the external package pins in correlation with the internal die pads.

You can visualize the data flow through the device and properly plan I/Os from both an external and internal perspective. After the I/Os are assigned and configured through the Vivado IDE, constraints are then automatically created for the implementation tools.

Xilinx recommends I/O planning high-speed interfaces in the following order to achieve the maximum utilization of available XPHY logic resources:

  1. Integrated DDRMC via NoC
  2. Soft memory controllers
  3. Advanced I/O wizard
  4. I/O logic

For more information on Vivado Design Suite I/O and clock planning capabilities, see the Vivado Design Suite User Guide: I/O and Clock Planning (UG899).

Recommended: Versal™ devices are already supported by Xilinx IP for memory and other high-speed I/O interfaces that follow very specific rules for clocking. Therefore, Xilinx recommends using a netlist-based I/O planning flow that contains Xilinx IP along with basic logic to exercise DRCs.