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Chapter 10
XPower
This program is compatible with the following device families:
• Virtex
™
, Virtex
™
-E
• Virtex
™
-II
• Virtex
™
-II Pro, Virtex
™
-II Pro X
• Virtex
™
-4
• Virtex
™
-5 LX
• Spartan
™
-II, Spartan
™
-IIE
• Spartan
™
-3, Spartan
™
-3E, Spartan
™
-3L
• CoolRunner
™
XPLA3, CoolRunner
™
-II
• XC9500
™
, XC9500XL
™
, XC9500XV
™
For a complete list of supported devices:
Run xpwr -ls [-arch] from the command line. See “-ls (List Supported Devices)” for
additional information on this option. You can also view a list of supported devices and get
more XPower information from the online help included in the XPower GUI tool.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• “XPower Overview”
• “Using XPower”
• “Files Used by XPower”
• “Command Line Options”
• “Command Line Examples”
• “Power Reports”
XPower Overview
XPower provides power and thermal estimates after PAR, for FPGA designs, and after
CPLDfit, for CPLD designs. XPower does the following:
• Estimates how much power the design will consume
• Identifies how much power each net or logic element in the design is consuming
• Verifies that junction temperature limits are not exceeded