In Project Mode, Vivado creates an on-disk directory structure to organize design sources, run results, reports, and project status.
Vivado stores the project infrastructure that enables automated management of design data, processes, and status in the project file (.xpr).
In Project Mode, the Vivado tools automatically write checkpoint files into the local project directory at key points in the design flow.
To run implementation in Project Mode, you click the Run Implementation button
in the IDE or use the launch_runs Tcl command. See
Using Project Mode in the
Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Design
Flows Overview (UG892) for
information about using projects in the Vivado Design Suite.