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Views

Chapter 3. Concepts

Highlight Instances

Highlights all instances constrained to the currently selected
placement region with the currently-selected highlight color. The
highlighted results will be visible in the Floorplanner view.

Un-Highlight
Instances

Turns off the highlight color in the Floorplanner view for all instances
constrained to the selected Placement Region.

Zoom to

Zooms the Floorplanner view to show the selected Placement Region.

Print Instances

Prints all instances constrained by the right-clicked Placement
Region to the

Tcl Console View

.

Show/Hide All

Enable or disable the colored overlays for all Placement Regions in
the Floorplanner view.

Clear Placement
Region

Empties the region of all instance constraints.

Remove a
Placement Region

Removes the right-clicked Placement Region and all associated
placement region constraints from the design.

Placement Regions Table Columns

Column

Editable

Description

Name

partially

The name of this placement region, with a checkbox to enable
the painting of the region in the Floorplanner view. The
background color of this table cell indicates the color used to
indicate this placement region in the Floorplanner view. If the
text in this column is clicked with the mouse, the text within the
cell changes to show the RGB (red, green, blue) color values, and
a ”. . . ” button appears which will allow the user to customize
the color of this placement region.

Flops

The number of flop sites contained in this placement region

LUTs

The number of LUT sites contained in this placement region

ALUs

The number of ALU sites contained in this placement region

BMACCs

The number of BMACC sites contained in this placement region

BRAMs

The number of BRAM sites contained in this placement region

LRAMs

The number of LRAM sites contained in this placement region

Using the Table to Display Placement Regions in the Floorplanner View

The following are ways to alter the presentation of Placement Region data in the

Floorplanner view

:

• Enable/Disable painting of individual placement regions within the Target Device:

When the checkbox in the ”Name” column for a placement region is selected, the area of the target
device (in the Floorplanner view) representing that placement region will be painted in the displayed
color.

• Alter the rendering color of individual clock regions:

The rendering color may be chosen for each individual placement region by left-clicking the mouse
pointer on the name of the chosen placement region. Once this is done, that value in the ”Name”
column will change to display the RGB (red, green, blue) color value, and a small ”. . . ” button will

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