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Appendix A

Xilinx Development System Files

This appendix gives an alphabetic listing of the files used by the Xilinx development system.

Name

Type

Produced By

Description

 

 

 

 

BIT

Data

BitGen

Download bitstream file for

 

 

 

devices containing all of the

 

 

 

configuration information from the

 

 

 

NCD file

 

 

 

 

BGN

ASCII

BitGen

Report file containing information

 

 

 

about a BitGen run

 

 

 

 

BLD

ASCII

NGDBuild

Report file containing information

 

 

 

about an NGDBuild run, including

 

 

 

the subprocesses run by NGDBuild

 

 

 

 

DATA

C File

TRCE

File created with the –stamp option

 

 

 

to TRCE that contains timing

 

 

 

model information

 

 

 

 

DC

ASCII

Synopsys FPGA

Synopsys setup file containing

 

 

Compiler

constraints read into the Xilinx

 

 

 

Development System

 

 

 

 

DLY

ASCII

PAR

File containing delay information

 

 

 

for each net in a design

 

 

 

 

DRC

ASCII

BitGen

Design Rule Check file produced

 

 

 

by BitGen

 

 

 

 

EDIF (various

ASCII

CAE vendor’s EDIF 2

EDIF netlist. The Xilinx

file extensions)

 

0 0 netlist writer.

Development System accepts an

 

 

 

EDIF 2 0 0 Level 0 netlist file

 

 

 

 

EDN

ASCII

NGD2EDIF

Default extension for an EDIF

 

 

 

2 0 0 netlist file

 

 

 

 

ELF

ASCII

Used for NetGen

This file populates the Block RAMs

 

 

 

specified in the .bmm file.

 

 

 

 

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Xilinx 8.2i manual Xilinx Development System Files, Name Type Produced By Description

8.2i specifications

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