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[partial-reconfig] Re: Vcc and Gnd constraints in DPR



Hello,
	It seems that I had an older version of the XAPP290.
	Will check out the new one.
	Thanks for pointing it our Umar :)

Regards,
Devadutt

Master's student
Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 04:42:24AM +0530, Devadutt wrote:
> Hello All,
>                                                                                                                             
> I am new to reconfiguration and hope that you'll excuse my naive questions.
>                                                                                                                             
> I have seen in the XAPP 290 example (from Xilinx) that the constraints file
> (calctop.ucf) contains constraints for each of the VCC and GND pins used
> with each of the bus macros. For example:
>         The top level vhdl files contain:
>         Vcc_lcd_driver <= Header7;  -- pin "C5"  Vcc LCD_Driver(global_logic_1)
>                                                                                                                             
>         and the UCF file contains the following corresponding line:
>         NET "Header7"  LOC = "C5";   # Vcc LCD_Driver (global_logic_1)
>         Net "Header7"  PULLUP;       # Add a weak pullup...
>                                                                                                                             
> Why are these specific mapping of VCC and GND required ?
> Why is such a mapping not used in the DPR tutorial by Grégory Mermoud ?
>                                                                                                                             
> If these mappings are necessary, then should the pin selection be done
> depending on the placement of VCC and GND pins on the target FPGA device?
>                                                                                                                             
> Thanks for your help.
>                                                                                                                             
> Regards,
> Devadutt
> Master's student
> Computer Science and Engineering
> Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi
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