Analysing the Results of the Compilation

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Diamond creates a Xilinx project to compile the bitstream for an FPGA.

 

The project and the intermediate files generated during the compilation are available on disk in a folder called 'temp_bldx', where 'x' is a number representing the FPGA, for example, temp_bld0. You can discover which temp_bldx file corresponds to each FPGA processor by building with the configurer's verbose option.

 

IDE_Verbose

 

The information you need will appear in the console output:

 

temp_bldx

 

You can use the Xilinx diagnostic tools such as timing_analyser or fpga_editor using the files contained in this folder.

 

You can run the Xilinx diagnostic tools from the Start menu as shown in the picture below:

 

 

 

To run the timing_analyser with ISE 10.1, open a command prompt and type 'timingan_old'.