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16 years ago

How to use signaltap in a bottom up flow

Hi, Our lab is used to work without partitions on relativly smaller designs (compile time<1h). The last debugging steps are done with signaltap, a quick and flexible method. Most of the time we...
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16 years ago

Hi Johannes,

I run some trials ( small project is attached). You should import all your partitions. After that you can specify in signaltap the nodes (choose post-fitting) you need. Only signaltap itself and the connection to the nodes will be new routed. You can find a good overview about the perservation level in the compilation report:

Fitter -> Incremental Compilation Section -> Incremental Compilation Preservation Summary

Kind regards

GPK