Designers can work individually or in teams to create, synthesize and perform place and route.
This process allows small functional changes to be quickly incorporated into the final place and route while preserving overall timing performance. Exemplar's new guided flow command set works with the Xilinx Alliance Series software to preserve timing and area information from previous place and route runs, substantially reducing design iteration time. Modular Design Recent enhancements to both LeonardoSpectrum 99.1 and the Xilinx Alliance Series software provide the necessary elements required for modular design. An incremental synthesis mode instructs LeonardoSpectrum to preserve all user-defined hierarchy and module names during the optimization process and create FPGA implementations that adhere to certain modular design specific rules. LeonardoSpectrum also has the ability to localize functional updates to a particular module of the design while preserving the netlist integrity of all remaining modules which is critical for supporting modular design.