From the HTML diff report, you can cross-probe a reported difference and display the block design difference in Vivado. In the HTML report, the differences appear as hyperlinks. Click a hyperlink to highlight the item showing the difference. As an example, the following report shows a collapsed view of the differences between two BDs.
Figure 1. Cross-probing
In the above report, two differences are highlighted. For design_1.bd, under Components, you can see that a new component instance called xlconcat_0 is found. Under Nets, xlconct_0_dout is found.
- Click xlconcat_0 to highlight the
xlconcat_0block ondesign_1. - Click xlconct_0_dout to highlight the
xlconct_0_doutnet ondesign_1.
By expanding and then clicking on various differences in the report, you can see the differences between the two block designs being compared.