The DSE Dashboard is your starting point for any Design Space Exploration activity.
The main view is divided into three columns:
- in the Constraints section (left), two buttons are provided: they allow you to access either constraints or objectives modeling;
- in the Synthesis section (centre), you can select the kind of synthesis you are interested in performing (either deployment or schedule; platform synthesis is currently not enabled);
- in the Visualization section (right), a button allows you to reach the Visualization view, in which several modalities for result visualization are provided.
Below you can find two further buttons for:
- selecting an existing AF3 Project;
- importing an external model.
In the standard perspective, on the left side, two navigators are present. These are not part of the Dashboard and will stay visible also when switching to a different view.
In the top left corner you can find the Process Navigator, which will take you to any step in a DSE Process and provides a shortcut to most options available in the Dashboard. It consists of four buttons:
- the Home Button leads to the DSE Dashboard;
- the Constraints Button leads either to constraint or to objective Modeling
- the Synthesis Button leads to deployment or schedule synthesis
- the Visualization Button allows you to visualize synthesis results.
Below the Process navigator, you can find the DSE Navigator which displays in a tree-format the history of your design space exploration, i.e.:
- model imports;
- target definitions, i.e. definition of constraints and objectives;
- rule set definitions;
- synthesis performed;
- selection of artefacts returned as solution by a synthesis step.