Setting Up Incremental Synthesis in Project Mode - 2025.2 English - UG901

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Synthesis (UG901)

Document ID
UG901
Release Date
2025-12-05
Version
2025.2 English

You can set up Incremental Synthesis with a project in the Synthesis page of the Settings dialog box.

Figure 1. Synthesis Page of Settings Dialog Box

Note the following important settings:

Incremental Synthesis selection box
The Browse button indicates if incremental synthesis uses a known checkpoint, the last checkpoint created (default), or if incremental synthesis is disabled.
incremental_mode Synth Design option
Describes how aggressively synthesis optimizes across partitions. Increased boundary optimization reduces effectiveness of incremental synthesis. The values are quick, default, aggressive, and off.
  • Quick: Enables only basic boundary optimization
  • Aggressive: Eables all types of boundary optimization over multiple iterations
  • Off: No boundary optimization