The AMD Vivado™ Design Suite is designed to improve productivity. Use this tool suite to design, integrate, and implement systems with AMD UltraScale™ , 7 series, AMD Versal™ devices, AMD Zynq™ UltraScale+™ MPSoCs, and AMD Zynq™ 7000 SoCs. AMD devices include a variety of technology, such as stacked silicon interconnect (SSI) technology, up to 28 GB high-speed I/O interfaces, hardened microprocessors and peripherals, analog mixed signal, and more. If you handle these larger and more complex devices incorrectly, they create multidimensional design challenges that can prevent faster time-to-market and increased productivity.
With the Vivado Design Suite, you can accelerate design implementation with place-and-route tools that analytically optimize multiple concurrent design metrics, such as timing, congestion, total wire length, utilization, and power. The Vivado Design Suite gives you design analysis capabilities at each design stage. This lets you modify designs and tool settings earlier in the design process, where changes have less schedule impact. As a result, you reduce design iterations and accelerate productivity.
The Vivado Design Suite replaces the ISE Design Suite. It replaces all ISE Design Suite point tools, such as Project Navigator, Xilinx Synthesis Technology (XST), implementation, CORE Generator tool, Timing Constraints Editor, ISE Simulator, Chip Scope Analyzer, Power Analyzer, FPGA editor, PlanAhead design tool, and SmartXplorer. These capabilities are now built directly into the suite and leverage a shared scalable data model. With the shared scalable data model of the Vivado Design Suite, you can execute the entire design process in memory without writing or translating intermediate file formats.
This accelerates runtimes, debug, and implementation while reducing memory requirements. You can launch the AMD Vitis™ IDE from Vivado. You use it to develop embedded software applications for embedded processors.
All Vivado Design Suite tools use a native tool command language (Tcl) interface. You can access all commands and options available in the Vivado Integrated Design Environment (IDE), the graphical user interface (GUI) for the Vivado Design Suite, through Tcl. The Vivado Design Suite also gives you powerful access to design data for reporting and configuration, as well as tool commands and options.
You can interact with the Vivado Design Suite in the following ways:
- Use GUI-based commands in the Vivado IDE.
- Enter Tcl commands in the Tcl Console of the Vivado IDE or in the Vivado Design Suite Tcl shell outside the IDE. You can also use a Tcl script file.
- Use a mix of GUI-based and Tcl commands.
A Tcl script can contain Tcl commands for the entire design synthesis and implementation flow. You can also generate all necessary reports for design analysis at any point in the design flow.