place_ports - 2021.1 English

Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835)

Document ID
UG835
Release Date
2021-06-16
Version
2021.1 English

Automatically place a set of ports

Syntax

place_ports [‑skip_unconnected_ports] [‑check_only] [‑iobank <args>]
    [‑quiet] [‑verbose] [<ports>...]

Usage

Name Description
[-skip_unconnected_ports] Do not place unconnected ports
[-check_only] Only check IO/Clock placement DRCs
[-iobank] Limit placement to the following banks
[-quiet] Ignore command errors
[-verbose] Suspend message limits during command execution
[<ports>] Ports to place (if omitted, all ports will be placed). If the arguments are interleaved objects of ports and package pins, then manual placement is performed

Categories

PinPlanning

Description

Assign ports to the pins of the Xilinx FPGA package, by automatically or manually placing ports.
  • Automatically places ports on an available I/O or clocking site, or into the specified I/O banks.
  • Manually assigns ports to the specified package_pin when both the port and pin are specified.
The place_ports command will not replace ports that are currently placed by the user, or ports that are placed and fixed.
Note: This command operates silently and does not return direct feedback of its operation.

Arguments

-skip_unconnected_ports - (Optional) Do not place unconnected ports.

-check_only - (Optional) Run the clock placer DRCs, which are also available as PLCK checks in the report_drc command. This option does not result in ports being placed, only checked for valid placement.

-iobank <args> - (Optional) Place the specified ports into the listed IO bank objects. IO bank objects are returned by the get_iobanks command.
Note: Limiting port placement to specific IO banks will result in a placement error if there are insufficient placement sites for the number of ports being placed.
-quiet - (Optional) Execute the command quietly, returning no messages from the command. The command also returns TCL_OK regardless of any errors encountered during execution.
Note: Any errors encountered on the command-line, while launching the command, will be returned. Only errors occurring inside the command will be trapped.
-verbose - (Optional) Temporarily override any message limits and return all messages from this command.
Note: Message limits can be defined with the set_msg_config command.
<ports> - (Optional) The names of the ports to be placed.
  • If no <ports> are specified, all unplaced ports will be placed.
  • Ports can be specified in <port_name> and <package_pin> pairs to manually assign ports to the specified package_pin. Multiple port_name package_pin pairs can be specified as follows:
    {<port_name1> <package_pin1> <port_name2> <package_pin2>
    <port_name2> <package_pin2>...<port_nameN> <package_pinN> }
Note: If previously placed ports are specified, or included in the list of ports to place, the Vivado tool will not replace or move those ports.

Examples

The following example places the port objects returned by the get_ports command, onto I/O bank 13 of the device, as returned by get_iobanks:
place_ports -iobank [get_iobanks 13] [get_ports DataOut_pad_1_o]
The follow example uses port_name package_pin pairs to manually place multiple ports:
place_ports {LEDS_n[2] AA11 LEDS_n[3] AA10 LEDS_n[0] Y11 LEDS_n[1] Y10}
The following example places all input ports onto I/O banks 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the device:
place_ports -iobank [get_iobanks {12 13 14 15}] [all_inputs]