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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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