Chapter 7

Design and Simulation Techniques

This chapter describes various design and simulation techniques and contains the following sections.

• “Replicating Components in a Design (SIZE)”
  
  
• “Retargeting a Design to a Different Family”
  
  
• “Merging Design Files from Other Sources”
  
  
• “Spartan and XC4000 Flip-flop Initialization”
  
  
• “XC9500 Flip-flop Initialization”
  
  
• “Setting Global Set/Reset and Tri-state Signals (FPGAs)”
  
  
• “Setting Global PRLD (CPLD Designs)”
  
  
• “Oscillator Functions (OSC, OSC4, OSC5)”