read_hw_ila_data - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835)

Document ID

UG835

Release Date

2020-11-18

Version

2020.2 English

Read hardware ILA data from a file

Syntax

read_hw_ila_data [‑quiet] [‑verbose] <file>

Returns

Name of the output file

Usage

Name	Description
`[-quiet]`	Ignore command errors
`[-verbose]`	Suspend message limits during command execution
`<file>`	hardware ILA data file name

Description

Read ILA debug core data from the specified file, and create an hw_ila_data object.

The ILA debug sample data is acquired from a running device using the upload_hw_ila_data command. This creates a hw_ila_data object that can be written to a file on disk using the write_hw_ila_data command. This command reads that ILA data file.

The hw_ila_data object that is created by read_hw_ila_data is named after the <file> it is read from. If a hw_ila_data object of the same name already exists, the name of the object is assigned a number extension starting at 1: <file>_1.

The new hw_ila_data object is not connected with, or associated with, any ILA debug cores in the design.

After being read from disk, the ILA debug data can be viewed in the waveform viewer of the Vivado logic analyzer by using the display_hw_ila_data command.

This command returns an ILA data object, or returns an error if it fails.

Arguments

-quiet - (Optional) Execute the command quietly, returning no messages from the command. The command also returns TCL_OK regardless of any errors encountered during execution.

Note: Any errors encountered on the command-line, while launching the command, will be returned. Only errors occurring inside the command will be trapped.

-verbose - (Optional) Temporarily override any message limits and return all messages from this command.

Note: Message limits can be defined with the set_msg_config command.

<file> - (Required) The name of ILA data file to read. If the file extension is not specified, the Vivado tool assumes an extension of .ila.

Note: If the path is not specified as part of the file name, the tool will search for the specified file in the current working directory and then in the directory from which the tool was launched.

Example

The following example reads the specified ILA data file, and creates a hw_ila_data object named after the file:

read_hw_ila_data C:/Data/hw_ila_data_2.ila