The Advanced Flow affects all Versal families. It does not affect 7 series or UltraScale architectures. When targeting Versal technologies, the Advanced Flow is always run. The Advanced Flow is a new place and route feature set that enables both faster compile times and improved performance by leveraging more advanced technologies and parallelization techniques.
The following captures some key changes in the implementation flow due to the introduction of the Advanced Flow set of features.
Feature | Impact |
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Implementation Runs | Faster compile times. Improved design performance. Log file differences. |
Place Design directives, subdirectives and tool options | Place Design allows both directive level selection and sub directive selection enabling fine grain selection of one or more components that make up a directive. |
Place Design Default VTree | Changed from InterSLR to Balanced. |
ECO | Standard placer is used instead of incremental placer. |
Intelligent Design Runs | Not supported. Use Automatic QoR Suggestion flow instead. |
ML Strategy | Not supported. Run multiple strategies or place_design directives instead. |
Auto directives | Not supported. Run multiple strategies or place_design directives instead. |
Incremental Implementation | Not supported |
Power Opt Design | Not supported |
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