Documentation

Two new online DynaText documents, VHDL Reference Guide and Verilog Reference Guide, describe how to use the Verilog and VHDL languages to create designs. If you have installed these manuals, you can access them from the online help as well as from the DynaText collection. To access from the online help, select Help Foundation Help Contents. Under Reference click VHDL Reference Guide or Verilog Reference Guide.

The Foundation Quick Start Guide 1.5 contains completely new in-depth tutorials that illustrate how to create, simulate, implement, and verify schematic and HDL designs.

The new interactive Foundation Demo, located on the documentation CD, illustrates how to use the Schematic Editor, State Diagram Editor, and Logic Simulator. The demo also shows how to create and synthesize an HDL design as well as implement a design. To invoke the demo, select Start Programs Xilinx Foundation Series Multimedia Foundation Demo. You can access the demo if the files have been installed from the documentation CD or if the documentation CD is installed in the caddy.

Online help contains new and updated information.

• The Basic FPGA Design Flow tutorial provides more information about HDL designs.
  
  
• The FPGA Design Techniques has more Verilog examples.
  
  
• A new section called Project Flows, located under Techniques in the umbrella help, describes the F1.5 schematic and HDL flows.
  
  
• Help for the Foundation implementation tools can be invoked directly from the umbrella help.
  
  
• Three CPLD documents have been eliminated and their information merged into other CPLD help files.