Configuring Block Design Containers from Top BD  - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Designing IP Subsystems Using IP Integrator (UG994)

Document ID
UG994
Release Date
2021-01-04
Version
2020.2 English
User can access a few settings of a BDC by opening up its 'Re-customize IP' dialog box. This can be done by double-clicking the BDC in the top-level block design diagram, or right-click the desired BDC and use the 'Customize Block' command. The BDC options are shown in the following figure.
Figure 1. BDC Re-customization GUI

Freeze the boundary of the BDC

This option prevents changes that modify the boundary of a BDC. The boundary includes BDC ports, interfaces, port maps, port widths, and parameters. With this option selected, nothing on the BDC boundary will change. All interfaces will have the port maps preserved, port widths will not change, and no parameters (with the exception of clk_domain property) will propagate from the top-level block design to the BDC and vice versa.

Specify BDC variants for synthesis and/or simulation

User can specify different sources for a Block Design Container. Different sources can be viewed as variants of a BDC. Variants of a BDC can differ in the IP blocks within the same defined boundary of the BDC. Once a variant source block design is added, user can select the active variant among these sources for the top-level BD. This action will update the BDC in real-time to show the contents of the new active variant. In addition, user can specify different sources used for BDC synthesis and simulation.

DFX Flow

To access this feature, please contact your Xilinx FAE support team.