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FlowTracer Overview
An advanced mission critical dependency management platform for developing and executing flows.
FlowTracer Tutorials
Discover FlowTracer functionality with interactive tutorials.
Altair FlowTracer User Guide
FlowTracer is a complete system to create, manage, and execute design flows.
Altair FlowTracer Administrator Guide
This manual is aimed at the person who will be the administrator for FlowTracer. This person will be responsible for configuring the network resources, setting up the licensing, and establishing security and access rules for the system.
Altair FlowTracer Developer Guide
- FlowTracer Roles
  When using FlowTracer in large deployments, three main roles emerge: Administrator, Developer and User. In smaller organizations, a given person may have multiple roles, but the duties of each role still exist.
- Environment Management
  To ensure the correct and repeatable behavior of the tools, the environment must be controlled. This chapter explains how VOV supports multiple reusable environments.
- Execute Jobs From the Command Line
- Flowbuilding
  The trace is built using a combination of techniques.
- Flow Description Language (FDL)
- Tool Integration
- Integrate Difficult Tools
- Runtime Change Propagation Control
  The patented technique of Runtime Change Propagation Control (RCPC) provides the ability to stop the propagation of insignificant changes through the flow.
- Flow Library
  FlowTracer captures your design in design flows described by Flow.tcl files. The Flow Library is meant to help users locate and deploy instances of packaged flows bound to their specific design data.
- Files, Equivalences, Exclusions
  The files used in a project reside in one or more directories spread all around your filesystems. Each logical name defined in the equiv.tcl file implicitly declares the root of a workspace. You can browse the workspaces using the browser interface.
- Makefile Conversion
- Advanced Tasker Topics
- Resource Management
  The Resource Map Set represents the collection of resource maps that have been assigned to a project and the constraints associated with such resources.
- CGI Interface
- Events
  Every change in the trace is recorded as an event, which is then sent to all clients that subscribe to them.
- Miscellaneous
  - Controlling Jobs on Tasker Host
    From Tcl, you can control both the taskers and the jobs running on the remote taskers with the procedure vtk_job_control.
  - Customize the Browser Interface
  - TclXML Parser
  - Create New Tcl Commands
    The Tcl interface allows you to manipulate the trace using Tcl scripts. This chapter covers the basics about writing Tcl scripts and executing them in VOV. In fact, most VOV commands such as vsr and vovforget are implemented by means of Tcl scripts.
  - Set Names
    Every set has a name and the name must be unique.
  - vovexport
    Generates a file in FDL (i.e. Tcl), C-Shell, or Makefile syntax from a subset of the trace.
  - GUI_Label Property
  - Limits for Objects and Strings
  - Upgrading to 2019.9 and Beyond

Customize the Browser Interface

The templates used to build the browser interface are in looked for in the following directories:


Directory	Description
html/	Computed with respect to the server configuration directory, for project specific templates.
./html/	Computed with respect to the server working directory, for project specific templates.
$VOVDIR/local/html	For site specific templates.
$VOVDIR/etc/html	Default installation templates.

The server caches the templates used to generate the HTML pages. To clear the caches, visit the /sanity page.

You may also use the command listed below in your own window to perform a sanity check.

% vovproject sanity