GUI
The HAL GUI provides an easy interface for users to interact with the netlist. It provides a graphical representation of the netlist enabling the user to navigate through the sea-of-gates or even manipulate it during investigation. Providing a set of widgets, it gives access to all kinds of information about the netlist and its components. Additionally, it provides access to the Python API via an embedded Python editor and a respective shell.
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The Graph View displays the netlist's components as a graph and offers several ways to interact with them. It allows to create modules as well as to fold and unfold them. Groupings can be viewd and edited. The navigation feature offers an easy way to follow a path through the graph on an element by element basis. Additionally the Cone View can reveal elements step by step that are connected to a starting point of interest to explore the graph and slowly reveal the structure of the netlist and its components.
See here for more detailed descriptions on the features offered by the Graph View.
The Views Widget provides an overview of all existing views. From within the widget, new views can be created and old ones can be (re)opened in the Graph View, duplicated, have their name changed, searched, and deleted.
See here for more detailed descriptions on the features offered by the Views Widget.
The Module Widget illustrates the netlist's module hierarchy as a tree. The widget features helpful actions including, but not limited to, adding a child module or changing the module's displayed color.
See here for more detailed descriptions on the features offered by the Module Widget.