Handling Constraints in RTL Modules - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Designing IP Subsystems Using IP Integrator (UG994)

Document ID
UG994
Release Date
2021-01-04
Version
2020.2 English

Constraints are not automatically associated it with a module reference block. You need to add the appropriate constraints to the top-level project where the module reference block is instantiated. Associating a top-level XDC to a module reference requires that the file to be scoped to the module. By scoping, you are limiting the XDC to only work on the module reference.

Recommended: Separate these constraints into another file. The scoping is by-reference or by-cell using the SCOPE_TO_REF or the SCOPE_TO_CELL property described in this link to “Appendix D, Editing or Overriding IP Sources” in the Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Designing with IP (UG896).

All IP related constraints which are instantiated in a RTL block are automatically inferred and processed.