During I/O planning, the Vivado IDE runs basic checks to ensure a legal pinout. However, complete sign-off DRCs are only run during Vivado implementation. Therefore, you need to run your design through Vivado implementation to ensure final legal pinouts.
The interactive I/O placement routines check common error cases during pin placement. You can toggle this capability on and off with the Autocheck I/O Placement checkbox in the General tab of the Package window settings.
When you enable automatic checking, the tool does not allow placement of I/O ports on pins that cause a design issue. In Place I/O Ports Sequentially mode, if you attempt to place an I/O Port on a problematic pin, a tooltip appears that describes why the I/O port cannot be placed. The interactive DRCs are enabled by default.
The interactive I/O placement rules include:
- Prohibiting
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- Placement on noise-sensitive pins associated with GTs or on I/O package pins that are potentially noise-sensitive
- I/O standard violations
- Ensuring
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- I/O standards are not used in banks that do not support them
- Banks do not have incompatible VCC ports assigned
- Banks that need VREF ports have free VREF pins
- Proper assignment of global clocks and regional clocks (only with an imported netlist and XDC file)
- Differential I/O ports are set to the proper sense pin
- No output pins are placed on input-only pins