Step 1: Create a Synplify Pro Project - 2023.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Tutorial: Programming and Debugging (UG936)
Document ID
UG936
Release Date
2023-11-01
Version
2023.2 English
  1. Launch Synplify Pro and select File > New.
  2. Set File Type to Project File (Project) as highlighted in the following figure.
  3. In the New File Name box, enter synplify_1.
  4. Click OK.

  5. If you get a dialog box asking you to create a non-existing directory, click OK.

  6. In the left panel of the Synplify Pro window, click Add File as shown in the following figure.

  7. In the Add Files to Project dialog box, change the Files of Type to HDL File. Navigate to C:\Vivado_Debug\src\lab4, which shows all the VHDL source files needed for this lab. Select the following three files by pressing the Ctrl key and clicking on them.
    • debounce.vhd
    • fsm.vhd
    • sinegen_demo.vhd
  8. Click Add.

  9. In the same dialog box, set Files of type to Constraints Files. This shows the synplify_1.sdc file. Select the file and click Add as shown in the following figure.

  10. In the same dialog box, set Files of type to FPGA Constraint Files. This shows the synplify_1.fdc file. Select the file and click Add as shown in the following figure. Click OK.

  11. Now, you need to set the implementation options.
  12. Click Implementation Options in the Synplify Pro window, as shown in the following figure.

  13. This includes the Implementation Options dialog box, as shown in the following figure. In the Device tab, set Technology to Xilinx Kintex7, Part to XC7K325T, Package to FFG900 , and Speed to -2. Leave all the other options at their default values. Click OK.

  14. You need to preserve the net names that you want to debug by putting attributes in the HDL files. These attributes are already placed in the sinegen_demo.vhd, file of this tutorial. Open the sinegen_demo.vhd file and inspect the lines shown.

  15. You also can specify the MARK_DEBUG attributes in the source HDL files to mark the signals for debugging, as shown in the code snippet from singen_demo.vhd file.

  16. The synplify_1.sdc file contains various kinds of constraints, such as pin location, I/O standard, and clock definition. The synplify_1.fdc file contains directives for the compiler. Here is where the nets of interest marked for debugging are located. The attribute and the nets selected for debugging are shown in the following figure.

    In the previous constraints, sinegen is defined as a black box by using the syn_black_box attribute. Second, the syn_no_prune attribute is used so that the I/Os of this block is not optimized away. Finally, two nets, sine[20:0] and sel[1:0], are assigned the MARK_DEBUG attribute such that these two nets should show up in the synthesized design in AMD Vivado™ IDE for further debugging. For further information on these attributes, refer to the Synplify Pro User Manual and Synplify Pro Reference Manual.