The Intelligent Design Runs window, shown in the following figure, provides two functions:
- A context-sensitive menu for accessing flow control and design analysis options
- Access to metrics such as WNS, TNS, WHS, and THS for the top-level and sub-level IDR runs
Figure 1.
Intelligent Design
Runs Tab
The metrics display the best run results for that IDR stage. They update regularly during the flow.
The right-click menu is context-sensitive and targets the selected flow stage. Right-clicking at the top level provides a superset of the options available at lower stages.
Figure 2. Flow Control and Design Analysis Options Menu
The menu options include:
- Implementation Run Properties
- Opens the run properties for the IDR run. These properties are reduced compared to a normal run.
- Delete
- Removes the run.
- Launch Runs
- Starts the runs.
- Reset Runs
- Resets the IDR and deletes all files.
- Terminate Run
- Stops the selected run without deleting the files in the run directory. This option is only available when a run is in progress.
- Generate Bitstream
- Launches the run through to bitstream generation if the run has not started.
- View Reports
- Opens the Intelligent Design Runs Reports window.
- Open Run Directory
- Accesses the run directory to view intermediate checkpoints and text reports.
- Open Run
- Opens the selected run or the best run from the selected stage for design analysis. Available only for routed checkpoints.
- Create ML Strategy Runs
- Available after stage 1 completes when the design still fails timing.
- Generate Single Pass Implementation Run
- Creates a standard implementation run that sets up the RQS file and incremental checkpoints (if required) to match the IDR results.