Tcl Commands and Options - 2022.1 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Implementation (UG904)

Document ID

UG904

Release Date

2022-05-24

Version

2022.1 English

Some command line options in the Xilinx® Vivado® IDE implementation are one-to-one equivalents of Xilinx Integrated Software Environment (ISE®) Design Suite commands.

The following table lists various ISE tool command line options, and their equivalent Vivado Design Suite Tcl command and Tcl command options. For more information about Tcl commands, see the Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835) or type <command> -help.

Table 1. ISE Command Map
ISE Command	Vivado Tcl Command and Option
`ngdbuild -p partname`	`link_design -part partname`
`ngdbuild -a` (insert pads)	`synth_design -mode out_of_context` (opposite)
`ngdbuild -u` (unexpanded blocks)	Enabled by default, generates critical warnings.
`ngdbuild -quiet`	`link_design -quiet`
`map -detail`	`opt_design -verbose`
`map -lc auto`	Enabled by default in place_design
map -logic_opt	`opt_design` and `phys_opt_design`
`map -mt`	`place_design` automatically runs multi-threaded. See Multithreading with the Vivado Tools for details.
`map -ntd`	`place_design -non_timing_driven`
`map -power`	`power_opt_design`
`map -u`	`link_design -mode out_of_context`, `opt_design` `-retarget` (skip constant propagation and sweep)
`par -mt`	`route_design` automatically runs multi-threaded. See Multithreading with the Vivado Tools for details.
`par -k`	The `route_design` command is always re-entrant.
`par -nopad`	The `-nopad` behavior is the Vivado tools default behavior. You must use `report_io` to obtain the PAD file report generated by PAR.
`par -ntd`	`route_design -no_timing_driven`