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Command Line Interface for SKILL Profiler

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The Virtuoso executable containing the Cadence^® SKILL language accepts command line options to turn on SKILL Profiling. The SKILL Profiler can be turned on when you start an executable by passing it the following arguments.

virtuoso -ilProf {time | memory | realTime} [-ilProfFile filename]

Because you enter these commands at the shell level, you use the shell syntax, hence the dash options. For example:

virtuoso -ilProf memory -ilProfFile /tmp/profMem.out

ilProf

Turns on SKILL Profiling for time by default. If memory is specified as the argument, the profiler runs in memory mode. If realTime is specified as the argument, the the profiler runs in time mode, with the time being measured as clock time.

ilProfFile

Specifies the destination file for the SKILL Profiling results. The file name should follow this argument. The default is ilProf.out in the directory from which the executable was started.

When the executable is exited, the profile summary file is written out.

Related Topics

Command Line: Test Coverage

TCov Report Files

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