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Projects

Chapter 3. Concepts

associated with a project. When associated with a project, these IP Configuration files may then be browsed
in the

Projects view

under the projects IP folder, and the associated editor may be started by double clicking

on the file name in the

Projects view

.

For more details, see

Creating an IP Configuration

,

SerDes Configuration Editor

,

FIFO Configuration Editor

,

I/O Configuration Editor

, and

PLL Configuration Editor

.

Output Files

Output files are generated for project

implementations

by running certain steps in the

Flow

. By default,

output files are automatically written to the project implementation’s directory under the output or reports
directory as appropriate. The user can also specify alternate output locations when running individual

flow

steps

with command line options.

In the GUI, output files can be browsed in the

Projects view

under their implementation and viewed in the

editor area by double clicking on the file name in the

Projects view

.

Log Files

A number of log files are automatically generated while ACE is running. They include the following:

• ACE Session Log

• Implementation Log

• Multiprocess Log

• SnapShot Log

• ACE GUI Log

The contents of these logs are typically the series of commands

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and resulting return values occurring

during the execution of ACE.

When contacting Achronix technical support, users may sometimes be requested to provide one or more of
these log files to Achronix to assist in the support effort.

ACE Session Log

Every time ACE is started, a new ACE session log is created in the directory <user home>

/.achronix/

.

This

file

will

be

named

ace

<

date timestamp

>

.log

,

where

<

date timestamp>

is

year month day hour minute second, with hour from a 24-hour clock.

For example, if ACE was

started in Linux with a username of ”example user”, on January 11th of 2010 at 2:34:56pm, the complete
log file name would be:

/home/example_user/.achronix/ace_2010_01_11_14_34_56.log

ACE session log messages are also sent to the

Tcl Console View

. For more information, see

Viewing the ACE

Log File

.

Implementation Log

In addition to the session log, each

project implementation

has an implementation log maintained for the

complete life of the implementation. All changes to the implementation, including running the

flow

for that

implementation, are appended to the implementation log. The implementation log is stored in the directory
<

project dir

>

/

<

impl name

>

/log/impl.log

.

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Tcl, OS command-line, etc.

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