BD_PIN - 2023.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Properties Reference Guide (UG912)

Document ID
UG912
Release Date
2023-11-01
Version
2023.2 English

Description

A block design pin, or a bd_pin object, is a point of logical connectivity on a block design cell. A block design pin allows the internal logic of a cell to be abstracted away and simplified for ease-of-use. Pins can be scalar or bus pins, and can appear on hierarchical block design cells, or leaf-level cells.

Related Objects

Figure 1. Block Design Pins

As seen in figure above, a block design pin is attached to a block design cell (bd_cell), and can be connected to other pins or ports by a net (bd_net) in the block design, or diagram.

You can query the bd_pins of bd_cell and bd_net objects:

get_bd_pins -of_objects [get_bd_cells clk_wiz_1]

In addition, you can query the bd_cell, or the bd_net, of a specific bd_pin:

get_bd_cells -of [get_bd_pins */Reset]

Properties

The specific properties on a block design pin object can vary depending on the type of the pin. The following table lists some of the properties assigned to a CLK type bd_pin object in the Vivado Design Suite, with example values:

Property	Type	Read-only	Visible	Value
CLASS	string	true	true	bd_pin
DEFAULT_DRIVER	string	true	true	0000
DIR	string	true	true	O
INTF	string	true	true	TRUE
LEFT	string	true	true	3
LOCATION	string	false	true	
NAME	string	false	true	gpio_io_o
PATH	string	true	true	/axi_gpio_0/gpio_io_o
RIGHT	string	true	true	0
TYPE	string	true	true	undef

To report the properties for the bd_net object, you can copy and paste the following command into the Vivado Design Suite Tcl shell or Tcl Console:

report_property -all [lindex [get_bd_pins */*] 0]