You can select ports and interfaces from the I/O Ports window and assign them to package pins or device resources, using the I/O Planning window layout. The popup menu contains the following commands:
- I/O Port Bus Properties
- Allows you to view or edit properties for the selected object.
- Delete
- Deletes the current selection.
- Expand Selection
- Expands the selected rows.
- Create I/O Port Interface
- Defines a new port interface to group ports. You can select and place port interfaces as one object within the I/O planning environment.
- Assign to Interface
- Assigns a group of ports, port buses, or interfaces to a parent interface.
- Unassign from Interface
- Unassigns a group of ports, port buses, or interfaces from their parent interface.
- Configure I/O Ports
- Assigns various properties of the selected I/O ports.
- Reset Invalid Port Properties
- Resets any invalid properties on the specified port to the default value.
- Reset Port Properties
- Resets all properties on the specified port to the default values.
- Set Direction
- Specifies the direction of a port only in an I/O planning project.
- Make Diff Pair
- Defines two ports as a differential pair in an I/O planning project.
- Split Diff Pair
- Removes the differential pair association from the selected port in an I/O planning project.
- Auto-place I/O Ports
- Places I/O ports using the Autoplace I/O Ports wizard.
- Place I/O Ports in an I/O Bank
- Assigns the currently selected ports onto pins on the specified I/O bank.
- Place I/O Ports in Area
- Assigns the currently selected ports onto pins in the specified area.
- Place I/O Ports Sequentially
- Assigns the currently selected ports individually onto pins.
- Unplace
- Unplaces the selected I/O ports.
- Fix Ports
- Constrains the selected, placed ports to their current locations, or if no
ports are selected, constrains all placed ports. Upon completion, a dialog
box appears with summary information.Note: This operation is only enabled for placed I/O ports. The resulting Tcl command is
set_property IS_LOC_FIXED true [get_ports [list <list of ports>]]. - Unfix Ports
- Unfixes the selected placed I/O ports.
- Swap Locations
- Swaps the sites for two selected ports.
- Schematic
- Creates a schematic from the selected objects.
- Highlight
- Highlights the selected objects.
- Unhighlight
- Unhighlights the selected objects.
- Mark
- Draws a marker for the selected object.
- Unmark
- Removes the marker for the selected object.
- Export I/O Ports
- Writes the contents of the I/O Ports window to a CSV, XDC, Verilog, or VHDL file.
- Export to Spreadsheet
- Exports the information in the I/O
Ports window to a spreadsheet file.Note: By default, the Vivado IDE exports seven levels of hierarchy to the Excel spreadsheet.