Understanding the Flow Navigator - 2023.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Design Flows Overview (UG892)

Document ID
UG892
Release Date
2023-10-18
Version
2023.2 English

The Flow Navigator (shown in the following figure) provides control over the major design process tasks, such as project configuration, synthesis, implementation, and bitstream generation. The commands and options available in the Flow Navigator depend on the status of the design. Unavailable steps are grayed out until required design tasks are completed.

Figure 1. Flow Navigator

The Flow Navigator (shown in the following figure) differs when working with projects created with third-party netlists. For example, system-level design entry, IP, and synthesis options are not available.

Figure 2. Flow Navigator for Third-Party Netlist Project

As the design tasks complete, you can analyze the RTL by performing Linting on it and specifying the waive-specific violations in the current design. After cleaning up the design, you can open the resulting designs to analyze results and apply constraints. In the Flow Navigator, click Open Elaborated Design, Open Synthesized Design, or Open Implemented Design. For more information, see Opening Designs to Perform Design Analysis and Constraints Definition.

When you open a design, the Flow Navigator shows a set of commonly used commands for the applicable phase of the design flow. Selecting any of these commands in the Flow Navigator opens the design, if it is not already opened, and performs the operation. For example, the following figure shows the commands related to synthesis.

Figure 3. Synthesis Section in the Flow Navigator