Chapter 3

Using the Design Manager

This chapter shows you how to perform common design tasks in the Design Manager and Flow Engine. These procedures are described in the following sections.

• “Creating a New Project”
  
  
• “Implementing a Design”
  
  
• “Creating a New Design Version”
  
  
• “Creating a New Implementation Revision”
  
  
• “Running Multiple Place and Route Passes on FPGAs”
  
  
• “Running Re-Entrant Routing on FPGAs”
  
  
• “Generating Pin Locking Constraints”
  
  
• “Deleting Items from the Project View”
  
  
• “Specifying Implementation, Simulation, and Configuration Options”
  
  
• “Creating a New Template”
  
  
• “Setting Custom Template Options”
  
  
• “Constraining a Design”
  
  
• “Guiding a Design”
  
  
• “Guiding a Design with Floorplan Files”
  
  
• “Exporting Design Data” section
  
  
• “Configuring the Flow”
  
  
• “Setting a Run Target”
  
  
• “Producing Timing Simulation Data”
  
  
• “Viewing Reports”