Starting HAL

Once installed, HAL can be used either as a pure command line tool or in combination with a GUI. Hence, it provides a number of command line parameters to configure the startup options.

Command Line Options

• -h, --help displays information regarding the usage of HAL.
• -v, --version displays the current version of HAL.
• --licenses shows the licenses of open-source projects used within HAL.
• -l, --logfile specify a name and path for the log file that is created by HAL.
• -i, --input-file specify the input file that the netlist is parsed or loaded from. This can be either a .hal file or of any netlist file format that is supported by the available netlist parsers.