Project Mode - 2023.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Design Flows Overview (UG892)

Document ID
UG892
Release Date
2023-10-18
Version
2023.2 English

The Vivado Design Suite takes advantage of a project based architecture to assemble, implement, and track the state of a design. This is referred to as Project Mode. In Project Mode, Vivado tools automatically manage your design flow and design data.

Tip: The key advantage of Project Mode is that the Vivado Design Suite manages the entire design process, including dependency management, report generation, data storage, etc.

When working in Project Mode, the Vivado Design Suite creates a directory structure on disk in order to manage design source files, either locally or remotely, and manage changes and updates to the source files.

Note: Certain operating systems (for example, Microsoft Windows) restrict the number of characters (such as 256) that can be used for the file path and file name. If your operating system has such a limitation, AMD recommends that you create projects closer to the drive root to keep file paths and names as short as possible.

The project infrastructure is also used to manage the automated synthesis and implementation runs, track run status, and store synthesis and implementation results and reports. For example:

  • If you modify an HDL source after synthesis, the Vivado Design Suite identifies the current results as out-of-date, and prompts you for re-synthesis.
  • If you modify design constraints, the Vivado tools prompt you to either re-synthesize, re-implement, or both.
  • After routing is completed, the Vivado tool automatically generates timing, DRC, methodology, and power reports.
  • The entire design flow can be run with a single click within the Vivado IDE.

For detailed information on working with projects, see Using Project Mode.