Xilinx ChipScope Pro User Manual

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Chapter 3
Using the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter
ChipScope Pro Core Inserter Overview
The ChipScope™ Pro Core Inserter is a post-synthesis tool used to generate a netlist that
includes your design as well as parameterized ICON (integrated controller), ILA
(integrated logic analyzer), and ATC2 (Agilent trace core) cores as needed. The ChipScope
Pro Core Inserter gives you the flexibility to quickly and easily use the debug functionality
to analyze an already synthesized design and to do so without any HDL instantiation.
Note: The VIO (virtual input/output) and IBERT (internal bit error ratio) cores are not supported in
the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter tool.
Using the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter with the PlanAhead Tool
The ChipScope Pro Core Inserter tool is not intended for use with the PlanAhead™ tool.
Instead, debug core insertion functionality has been incorporated into the PlanAhead tool
environment. To make it easier to migrate from the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter tool to the
ISE® PlanAhead tool environment, a CDC import command is provided in the PlanAhead
tool. This allows the importing of the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter CDC project file into a
PlanAhead tool project. For more details on the ChipScope core insertion capabilities of the
PlanAhead tool, please refer to the PlanAhead User Guide
[See Reference 17, p. 225].
Using the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter with ISE Project Navigator
This section is provided for users of the Windows or Linux versions of ChipScope Pro and
ISE tools.
The ChipScope Pro Core Inserter .cdc file can be added as a new source file to the Project
Navigator source file list. In addition to this, the Project Navigator tool recognizes and
invokes the ChipScope Pro Core Inserter tool during the appropriate steps in the
implementation flow. For more information on how the Project Navigator and the
ChipScope Pro Core Inserter are integrated, refer to the Project Navigator section of the ISE
Software Documentation
[See Reference 14, p. 225].

Xilinx ChipScope Pro Specifications

General

Brand	Xilinx
Model	ChipScope Pro
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English