Features of the Floorplanner

The Floorplanner provides an easy-to-use graphical interface that offers the following features.

• Interacts at a high level of the design hierarchy, as well as with low-level elements such as I/Os, function generators, tristate buffers, flip-flops, and RAM/ROM
  
  
• Captures and imposes complex patterns, which is useful for repetitive logic structures such as interleaved buses
  
  
• Automatically distributes logic into columns or rows
  
  
• Uses dynamic rubberbanding to show the ratsnest connections
  
  
• Finds logic or nets by name or connectivity
  
  
• Permits design hierarchy rearrangement to simplify floorplanning
  
  
• Groups logic by connectivity or function
  
  
• Identifies placement problems in the Floorplan window
  
  
• Provides online help