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Learn how to install and run ALINT-PRO

Learn how to work with the design structure in ALINT-PRO

Learn how to run design analysis with ALINT-PRO

Learn how to analyze linting results with ALINT-PRO

Learn how to use the RTL Schematic Viewer in ALINT-PRO

Learn how to use ALINT-PRO in batch mode

Learn how to run unit linting with ALINT-PRO

Learn how to run ALINT-PRO unit linting within Riviera-PRO framework

This video will show you how to install and setup the main ALINT-PRO application as well as additional rule plug-ins. Installation of extra rulesets can be confirmed within the main tool and enabled via the policy editor. For license verification during setup, the license diagnostic tool provides ample information on the current license file and licensed modules.

ALINT-PRO's Flow Manager window allows managing the design analysis process in a convenient way. This video will show each step of the design flow, going through parse, elaboration, synthesis, constraints, and finally linting. At each step, more information about a project can be obtained. Additionally, each step includes various settings and configurable properties that allow for a highly customized linting process.

Whether one chooses to develop their design in Active-HDL, Riviera-PRO, Quartus, or Vivado, ALINT-PRO can always be used to perform design rule checking via the tool's convert feature. Converting external project files into ALINT-PRO turns the source project files into the equivalent ALINT-PRO workspace and project structure. Once converted, the design is then accessible to all of the solution's linting and rule checking features.

ALINT-PRO's violation viewer provides a user friendly window for displaying and managing design rule violations. Coupled with automatic report generators, the tool helps not only to identify any violations within your design, but also document them so that they may be corrected and even prevented in later designs. Automatic report generators come in a number of formats, including CSV, PDF, HTML, as well as Quality Reports which provide metrics on how compliant a design is to a given rule set.

Workflow in ALINT-PRO is organized through projects that are grouped into workspaces. A project will contain the set of properties and files, those being your HDL source code and design constraints, to form a single entity that makes up part of your design. Libraries are automatically generated at the local level and correspond to projects within the workspace. Additional libraries can be added through the tool's library export and attach features.

The quality of linting results is largely dependent on one's policies and rules. Through the use of its policy editor, ALINT-PRO provides an effective means of managing and customizing those policies and rules to best fit the standards and practice of one's design team or company.

Waivers provide an excellent service in managing violations during the linting process by ignoring those violations or sources of violations that might be too pessimistic for or not applicable to one's design. ALINT-PRO's interface provides an easy process for adding and removing these waivers no matter the source. Additionally, the tool's waiver editor provides a single location where one can manage and edit an entire project's waiver list, and even export this list for future projects.

Through the RTL Schematic Window, ALINT-PRO provides a powerful graphical representation of a design's netlist. This window can be accessed, or cross-probed, from various other windows within the tool, which focuses on and highlights those different sources.

Command Line and Batch modes allow a user to have the full functionality of ALINT-PRO without the requirement of running any graphical user interface. This is achieved by inputting interactive commands in the case of command line mode or providing a script or list of these commands in the case of batch mode.

Important simulator commands from other tools such as Active-HDL and Rivera-PRO are supported within ALINT-PRO's interactive console and batch modes. These compatibility commands invoke similar behavior within the tool and allow those traditional macros from other tools to be used within ALINT-PRO. While these commands are functional and provide a means of design entry, it is recommend to use native ALINT-PRO commands when working within a normal workflow.

Linting can be ran directly from your design tool using the "Run In Aldec ALINT-PRO" feature available in Active-HDL. This feature can either generate a new tcl script that automatically converts the design workspace and performs linting or can use an existing script to perform after launching the ALINT-PRO software.

Linting can be ran directly from your simulation tool using the "Check in Aldec ALINT-PRO" feature available in Riviera-PRO. This feature can either generate a new tcl script that automatically converts the design workspace and performs linting or can use an existing script to perform after launching the ALINT-PRO software.