Manually Setting a Bottom-Up Flow and Importing Netlists - 2024.1 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Synthesis (UG901)

Document ID
UG901
Release Date
2024-06-28
Version
2024.1 English

To manually run a bottom-up flow, instantiate a lower-level netlist or third-party netlist as a black box, and the Vivado tools fit that black box into the full design after synthesis completes. The following sections describe the process.

Important: Vivado synthesis does not synthesize or optimize encrypted or non-encrypted synthesized netlists; consequently, XDC constraints or synthesis attributes do not affect synthesis with an imported core netlist. Also, Vivado synthesis does not read the core netlist and modify the instantiated components by default; however, Vivado synthesis does synthesize secure IP and RTL. Constraints do affect synthesis results.