Xilinx 8.2i manual XPower Overview

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Chapter 10

XPower

This program is compatible with the following device families:

Virtex, Virtex-E

Virtex-II

Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-II Pro X

Virtex-4

Virtex-5 LX

Spartan-II, Spartan-IIE

Spartan-3, Spartan-3E, Spartan-3L

CoolRunnerXPLA3, CoolRunner-II

XC9500, XC9500XL, XC9500XV

For a complete list of supported devices:

Run xpwr -ls[-arch]from the command line. See “-ls (List Supported Devices)” for additional information on this option. You can also view a list of supported devices and get more XPower information from the online help included in the XPower GUI tool.

This chapter contains the following sections:

“XPower Overview”

“Using XPower”

“Files Used by XPower”

“Command Line Options”

“Command Line Examples”

“Power Reports”

XPower Overview

XPower provides power and thermal estimates after PAR, for FPGA designs, and after CPLDfit, for CPLD designs. XPower does the following:

Estimates how much power the design will consume

Identifies how much power each net or logic element in the design is consuming

Verifies that junction temperature limits are not exceeded

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Xilinx 8.2i manual XPower Overview