upload_hw_ila_data - 2022.1 English

Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835)
Document ID
UG835
Release Date
2022-05-05
Version
2022.1 English

Stop capturing. Upload any captured hardware ILA data.

Syntax

upload_hw_ila_data [‑quiet] [‑verbose] [<hw_ilas>...]

Returns

Hardware ILA data objects.

Usage

Name Description
[-quiet] Ignore command errors
[-verbose] Suspend message limits during command execution
[<hw_ilas>] List of hardware ILA objects. Default: Current hardware ILA

Categories

Hardware

Description

Upload the captured data from the memory buffers of the specified ILA debug cores on the Xilinx® FPGA hardware device, and move it into a hw_ila_data object in the Vivado® logic analyzer.

You can upload captured data from the ILA debug core at any time during the capture process triggered by the run_hw_ila command. However, you may want to use the wait_on_hw_ila command in any Tcl scripts, to wait until the sample data buffers of the ILA core are fully populated with data. If you run the upload_hw_ila_data command prior to this, you may see a message as follows: 
INFO: [Labtools 27-1965] The ILA core 'hw_ila_1' trigger was stopped by user \
at 2014-Mar-06 08:59:30
INFO: [Labtools 27-2212] The ILA core 'hw_ila_1' captured '6' windows with \
'64' samples each, and a last partial window with '0' samples.
The upload process creates a hw_ila_data object in the process of moving the captured data from the ILA debug core, hw_ila, on the physical FPGA device, hw_device. The hw_ila_data object is named after the hw_ila core it is uploaded from.
Tip: Each hw_ila object has only one matching hw_ila_data object associated with it. Each time upload_hw_ila_data is run for a specific hw_ila core, the hw_ila_data object is overwritten if it already exists.

The data object, hw_ila_data can be viewed in the waveform viewer of the Vivado logic analyzer by using the display_hw_ila_data command, and can be written to disk using the write_hw_ila_data command.

This command returns a hw_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.

<hw_ilas> - (Optional) Specify one or more hw_ila objects to upload data from. The hw_ila objects can either be specified as objects returned by the get_hw_ilas or current_hw_ila commands, or specified by name. If the hw_ila is not specified, the data will be uploaded from the current_hw_ila.

Example

The following example arms the current hardware ILA debug core on the target hw_device, captures sample data at the probes as trigger events or capture conditions are encountered. Tcl script processing is suspended while sample data is captured, and then the data is uploaded from the hw_ila on the hw_device, into a hw_ila_data object: 
run_hw_ila -trigger_now [current_hw_ila]
wait_on_hw_ila [current_hw_ila]
upload_hw_ila_data [current_hw_ila]

See Also