Design Rule Checks on Port Connection - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Model-Based DSP Design Using System Generator (UG897)

Document ID
UG897
Release Date
2020-11-18
Version
2020.2 English

When a black box is used in a multiple independent hardware clock design context, design rule checks (DRCs) for its port connections must be added in the configuration M-function. This helps to avoid invalid or incorrect port connection with different clock sources. You need to ensure all port signals are connected from/to a proper clocked-subsystem interface.

The utility checkPortsOfSameClockDomain() should be used to specify a list of ports from a particular clock domain and to group it together. The input arguments to this application programming interface (API) are 'SysgenBlockDescriptor' objects followed by the list of port names associated with a particular clock domain.

In the example shown below, the API puts out an error check, and verifies that the four ports are connected to the same subsystem clock domain.

checkPortsOfSameClockDomain (<block_descriptor>, '<port_name_1>', '<port_name_2>', 
'<port_name_3>', '<port_name_4>');