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Vivado Design Suite Properties Reference Guide (UG912)

Document ID
UG912
Release Date
2024-11-13
Version
2024.2 English

Description

A block design port is a special type of hierarchical pin, a pin on the top-level diagram. In block designs, the ports are primary ports communicating the external connection of the block design or diagram to the overall FPGA design, or system-level design.

Related Objects

Figure 1. Block Design Port

The block design port, bd_port object, occurs in a block design, or diagram. It is connected by block design nets (bd_net) to the pins (bd_pin) of block design cells (bd_cell) in the diagram. You can query the bd_ports of the diagram, or those connected to block design nets.

get_bd_ports -of_objects [get_bd_nets]

You can also query the block design nets connected to bd_port objects:

get_bd_nets -of_objects [get_bd_ports aux_reset_in]

Properties

The specific properties on a block design port object can vary depending on the type of the port. The following table lists some of the properties assigned to a RESET type bd_port object in the Vivado Design Suite, with example values:

Property	Type	Read-only	Visible	Value
CLASS	string	true	true	bd_port
CONFIG.POLARITY	string	false	true	ACTIVE_LOW
DIR	string	true	true	I
INTF	string	true	true	FALSE
LEFT	string	false	true	
LOCATION	string	false	true	130 560
NAME	string	false	true	aux_reset_in
PATH	string	true	true	/aux_reset_in
RIGHT	string	false	true	
TYPE	string	true	true	rst

To report the properties for a bd_port object, you can copy and paste the following command into the Vivado Design Suite Tcl shell or Tcl Console:

report_property -all [lindex [get_bd_ports] 0