ChipScope Pro Software and Cores User Guide
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UG029 (v14.3) October 16, 2012
ChipScope Pro Core Inserter Features
Note:
If you are using the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter flow in the ISE Project Navigator tool, click
Return
to Project Navigator instead of selecting the
Insert > Insert Core
option. The insertion of the
cores happens automatically as part of the Translate process in the Project Navigator tool. Refer to
“Using the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter with ISE Project Navigator,” page 33
for details.
Managing Project Preferences
The preference settings are organized into three categories: Tools, ISE Integration, and
Miscellaneous.
The Tools section contains settings for the command line arguments used by the
ChipScope Pro Core Inserter to launch the EDIF2NGD tool.
The ISE Integration section contains settings that affect how the ChipScope Pro Core
Inserter integrates with the ISE Project Navigator tool. When ISE integration is enabled
(the default), the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter automatically searches the current working
directory for ISE temporary netlist directory called
_ngo
. If a valid ISE
_ngo
directory is
found, the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter project is automatically set up to overwrite the
intermediate NGD files of the ISE project with those produced by the ChipScope Pro Core
Inserter. You can set the ISE Integration preferences to prompt you before overwriting any
intermediate NGD files.
The Miscellaneous preferences section contains other settings that affect how the
ChipScope Pro Core Inserter operates. For example, you can set up the ChipScope Pro Core
Inserter to display the ports in the Select Net dialog box. This might be desired if the cores
are being inserted into a lower-level EDIF netlist, instead of the top level. These port nets
are shown in gray in the Select Net dialog box. The ChipScope Pro Core Inserter can also be
set up to display nets that are illegal for connection in the Select Net dialog box. When this
preference option is enabled, any illegal nets are shown in red in the Select Net dialog box.
Also, you can set up the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter to disable the display of source
component instance names, source component types, and base net driver types in the
Select Net dialog box. You can reset the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter project preferences to
the installation defaults by clicking the
Reset
button.
