Chapter 3

Alliance Series Design Implementation Tools Tutorial

NOTE

An updated tutorial will be available after June 30, 1998 from the Xilinx web site and on the AppLINX CD. The web site location is (http://www.xilinx.com/support/techsup/tutorials). Contact your local sales representative for a copy of the AppLINX CD.

This chapter contains the following sections.

• “Installing the Tutorial”
  
  
• “Step 1: Creating an Implementation Project”
  
  
• “Step 2: Specifying Options”
  
  
• “Step 3: Implementing the Design”
  
  
• “Step 4: Mapping the Design”
  
  
• “Step 5: Using Timing Analysis to Evaluate Block Delays After Mapping”
  
  
• “Step 6: Placing and Routing the Design”
  
  
• “Step 7: Evaluating Post-Layout Timing”
  
  
• “Step 8: Creating Timing Simulation Data”
  
  
• “Step 9: Using the Flow Engine to Create Configuration Data”
  
  
• “Step 10: Using the PROM File Formatter”