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# Design Flow Navigator (Flow Navigator)
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After creating a new project, the main Vivado project window shown in _Fig. 1_ will open.
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_Figure 1. Empty Vivado project window._
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Visually, the main Vivado window is divided into two parts: a narrow `Flow Navigator` panel on the left and the main `Project Manager` window on the right. Vivado is a powerful, multi-functional integrated design environment (IDE) composed of several sub-applications that are packaged together into a single graphical shell for convenience. The `Flow Navigator` allows you to switch between these sub-applications within a single window.
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The design flow involves cyclically repeating the following steps:
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1. Writing code.
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2. Analyzing the resulting schematic for easily detectable errors.
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3. Simulating the schematic.
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4. Synthesis.
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5. Implementation.
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6. Generating a bitstream for programming the FPGA.
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Some of these steps are described in more detail in the chapter "FPGA Implementation Steps".
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If an error is found at any step, the process returns to step 1 and repeats from the beginning. Thanks to the `Flow Navigator`, you do not need to launch a separate application for each step — you can quickly move between stages within a single graphical window.
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Depending on which sub-application is activated in the `Flow Navigator`, the main area of the Vivado window changes accordingly. When a project is created, the `Project Manager` is activated automatically (highlighted in teal in the `Flow Navigator`), which is why the Project Manager opens in the main window.
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