This tool compiles an experiment into a ELF file. It is primarily used to prepare binaries for the default experiment loaded in non-volatile storage of the core device.
Experiments compiled with this tool are not allowed to use RPCs, and their ``run`` entry point must be a kernel.
The artiq_coremgmt utility gives remote access to the core device logs, the :ref:`core-device-flash-storage`, and other management functions.
To use this tool, you need to specify a ``device_db.py`` device database file which contains a ``comm`` device (an example is provided in ``examples/master/device_db.py``). This tells the tool how to connect to the core device and with which parameters (e.g. IP address, TCP port). When not specified, the artiq_coremgmt utility will assume that there is a file named ``device_db.py`` in the current directory.
Note that enabling the ``TRACE`` log level results in small core device slowdown, and printing large amounts of log messages to the UART results in significant core device slowdown.
You can also write entire files in a record using the ``-f`` parameter. This is useful for instance to write the startup and idle kernels in the flash storage::
:mod:`~artiq.frontend.artiq_coreanalyzer` is a tool to convert core device RTIO logs to VCD waveform files that are readable by third-party tools such as GtkWave. This tool extracts pre-recorded data from an ARTIQ core device buffer (or from a file with the ``-r`` option), and converts it to a standard VCD file format. See :ref:`rtio-analyzer-example` for an example, or :mod:`artiq.test.coredevice.test_analyzer` for a relevant unit test.
