Creating a New Project

When you open the Design Manager for the first time, you must create a new project for your design before you can use the Design Manager. A project includes all design versions, implementation revisions, reports, and any other Xilinx data created while you work with a design. The Design Manager graphically displays information about these items in the project view. When you create a new project, you specify a design to open and a directory for the project. You can create as many projects as you want, but you can only work with one at a time.

The following procedure explains how to create a new project by importing a design.

To Create a New Project

1. Select File New Project from the Design Manager menu or click the New Project toolbar button.
   
   
   
   The New Project dialog box appears, as shown in the “New Project Dialog Box” figure of the “Menu Commands” chapter.
   
   
2. Specify a design file to open using one of the following methods.
   
   
   • In the Input Design field, type the name of a design file to open.
     
     
   • Click the Input Design Browse button to the right of the Input Design box. The Open dialog box appears. Select an EDF, EDN, EDIF, SEDIF, PLD, SXNF, XNF, or XTF file to open. The PLD format is supported for CPLDs only. Click OK.
     
     

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     NOTE

     The Design Manager automatically creates a subdirectory named xproj under the input design directory and uses it as the work directory. The Design Manager uses the xproj subdirectory to store all the data files for the project. If you want to change this default work directory, type a path in the Work Directory field or use Browse to select a directory.

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3. In the New Project dialog box, click OK.
   
   After your design has loaded, the Design Manager is configured for the loaded design.