{"id":9822,"date":"2015-09-02T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2015-09-01T14:06:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T21:06:28","slug":"converting-from-ucf-to-xdc-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/converting-from-ucf-to-xdc-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting from UCF to XDC file"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little while ago, I wrote a post<\/a> introducing everyone to the constraints file. The file that maps nets to physical pins in an FPGA design. If you missed that post, you can check it out here. Part of the reason I wrote that post was because of the increasing number of Forum questions regarding constraints files, and converting projects from Xilinx ISE<\/a> to Xilinx Vivado<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Xilinx<\/a>
Xilinx ISE and Vivado side by side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If the project contains no IPs, then all you have to do is convert the UCF file into a XDC file. However, if you don’t understand what the file is for or have never worked with one, it can be a little confusing. So I wrote the post introducing the constraints file, UCF and XDC being constraint files.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A side by side image of the XDC and UCF files for the Nexys 4 DDR<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, I discovered that it might be useful to write a guide on how to convert from UCF to XDC file. There are a few reasons that you may have to do this. For example, if you upgrade your board from an ISE-compatible board to one that’s only compatible with Vivado,\u00a0like the changing from Nexys 3<\/a> to Basys 3<\/a>, or Basys 2<\/a> to Basys 3. Alternatively, you could be upgrading software by choice, like with the Nexys 4 DDR, which is compatible with both ISE and Vivado. And lastly, you could be trying to use an old demo written for a different board than the one you have.<\/p>\n

Either way the steps are the same:<\/p>\n

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  1. Download the Master XDC for the new board.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \"The<\/a>
    The bottom of the Nexys 4 DDR product page showing the XDC file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    2.\u00a0Find all the nets in use in the old UCF file.<\/p>\n

    \"Nets<\/a>
    Nets in use are the un-commented lines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    3.\u00a0Find those same components in the new XDC file.<\/p>\n

    \"You<\/a>
    You can find the components based on the commented headers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    4.\u00a0Un-comment those nets.<\/p>\n

    5.\u00a0Change the net names to match the old file.<\/p>\n

    \"The<\/a>
    The switches un-commented and net names changed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    To view the full, more detailed instructions you can view the instructable here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    How and why you’d convert UCF files to XDC files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1563],"tags":[453],"ppma_author":[4466],"class_list":["post-9822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fpga","category-guide","tag-vivado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FSIOP6AIDU2PPKC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4466,"user_id":18,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kaitlyn","display_name":"Kaitlyn Franz","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9276021eaa44781ce19f364cfca46ada25e1500769cf4803a095a5bae83c912a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}