Advanced Design Techniques

As your FPGA requirements grow, your design problems can change. High-density design environments mean multiple teams working through distributed nodes on the same project, located in different parts of the world, or across the aisle. Xilinx advanced design options are targeted at making your high-density design easier to realize.

• ChipScope™ Pro Tool
  Leading-edge, real-time debug and verification tools for Xilinx FPGAs enabling on-chip debug at or near operating system speed.

• ChipScope Pro Serial IO Toolkit
  An optional add-on to the popular ChipScope Pro verification toolset that lets you quickly and easily set up your Virtex™-4 serial IO channels.

• PlanAhead™ Design Analysis Tool
  An advanced floorplanner and design analysis tool that decreases your design time and increases performance by simplifying logic synthesis through physical design.

• Incremental Design
  By first Area Mapping your design, Incremental Design makes sure that any design changes do not force a full re-implementation of the chip. Only the area involved in the change must be re-implemented, the rest of the design stays intact.

• Electronic System Level (ESL) Design for FPGAs
  ESL refers to emerging design and verification methodologies that use higher level languages such as "C" to capture hardware design intent. Check out the several innovative and Xilinx optimized ESL solutions that are available from Xilinx ecosystem partners.

• High-Level Floorplanner*
  The Xilinx High-Level Floorplanner is a graphic planning tool that lets you map your design onto the target chip. Floorplanning can efficiently drive your high-density design process.

• High-Level Languages*
  As design densities increase, the need for a higher-level of abstraction becomes more important. Xilinx is driving and supporting the industry standards and their supporting tools.

* See Documentation for additional information.