Standard hw_server Options - 2023.1 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Programming and Debugging (UG908)

Document ID: UG908
Release Date: 2023-05-16
Version: 2023.1 English

Table 1. Standard hw_server Options
Option	Purpose	Example
`-d`	Run hw_server in daemon mode (output is sent to system logger).	`hw_server -d`
`--help`	Basic command line help.
`-I`	Exit if there are no target connections established for the specified time. Time here is specified in seconds.	`hw_server -I 20`
`-L`	Enable logging of JTAG commands from clients to the hw_server.	`hw_server -L-` The previous option logs output to `stdout` `hw_server -Lmy_file.log` The previous option logs output to file my_file.log
`-s`	Sets up an agent listening port and protocol.	`hw_server -stcp::3122` The previous option is used to connect when using the local host with port 3122 at hw_server start up.
`-q`	Do not display version information on start up.
-p	Assign a range of ports to be used by AMD GDB server, or disable the feature.	`hw_server -p<port>` `<port>` is the base port number for GDB server. Default is 3000 The server opens one port per target architecture: 3000: Arm® ; 3001: Arm64; 3002: MicroBlaze™ ; 3003: MicroBlaze64 `hw_server -p0 disables the port`
`--init`	This option is used to specify an initialization script file to hw_server	`hw_server --init my_init.txt` The file my_init.txt contains options that are applied to the hw_server at startup
`--init`	Environment variable `HW_SERVER_INIT_FILE` Use to specify default `--init` file	`export HW_SERVER_INIT_FILE=~/my_init.txt` `hw_server` In this case, the hw_server is initialized with the settings coming from the file pointed to by the environment variable `HW_SERVER_INIT_FILE`.