Make sense of your results
Running hundreds of configurations produces a lot of numbers. Odatix Explorer is the tool that makes them useful: an interactive, web-based dashboard that reads your exported results and lets you compare architectures visually — no spreadsheets required.
It is where every other feature converges. Synthesis figures, simulation benchmarks, analysis verdicts and workflow metrics are all ordinary records in the same result files, so a single chart can put them side by side.
When you need it
- Picking a design point. Which configuration gives the best Fmax per LUT? A scatter chart answers in one look what a table hides.
- Understanding a trend. Fmax against data width, area against memory depth — a line chart over a parameter domain shows where a design stops scaling.
- Comparing tools, flows or targets. The same design synthesized with two flows, or on two FPGAs, plotted on the same axes.
- Producing figures. A paper, a slide deck or a README needs vector charts that stay crisp — export them straight from the chart you are looking at.
- Sanity-checking a campaign. The overview and RTL analysis dashboards make a configuration that failed, or one whose numbers look impossible, obvious.
A chart for every question
| Chart | Best for |
|---|---|
| Line | Trends of a metric across an ordered parameter (e.g. Fmax vs data width) |
| Column | Direct side-by-side comparison of configurations |
| Column (per frequency) | How a metric such as power evolves at different operating frequencies |
| Scatter | Correlation between two metrics (e.g. power vs Fmax) |
| 3D scatter | Correlation between three metrics (e.g. LUTs, registers, Fmax) |
| Radar | Multi-metric profile of a few configurations at a glance |
| Overview | A comparative summary across many metrics at once |
Every chart can be exported directly: SVG for papers and slides, PNG / JPEG / WEBP for reports and READMEs, with a theme (dark included) to match your document.
Working with the rest of Odatix
| Combine it with | Why |
|---|---|
| Architecture exploration | Every parameter domain becomes an axis: charts are grouped and coloured by the parameters you defined. |
| Fmax synthesis | Fmax across configurations is the chart Odatix was built for. |
| Place & route | Put synthesis estimates and post-route reality side by side. |
| Simulation | Benchmark numbers live next to area and timing, so throughput-per-LUT is one chart away. |
| Workflows | Any metric a workflow extracts is chartable and correlatable like the rest. |
| Derived metrics | Compute what you actually want to plot — runtime, energy, efficiency — from metrics several job types produced. |
Using it
From the CLI
Results are exported automatically at the end of each run, into results/.
Explorer just reads them:
odatix-explorer # open the dashboard on ./results
odatix-explorer -i other_results # read a different directory
If a run was launched with -e/--noexport, or you changed a metric definition,
re-export without re-running anything:
odatix res_synth # synthesis and place & route results
odatix res_simulation # simulation results
odatix res_workflow # workflow results
odatix res_derived # apply derived_metrics.yml
What lands in results/ and in which file is documented in
Results & export; what gets extracted, in
Metrics files.
From the GUI
odatix-gui → Explore Results opens the same dashboard inside the full
interface, with its chart pages in the top bar — so configuring, launching,
monitoring and exploring all happen in one place. Charts, filters and export
options are identical; odatix-explorer is simply the standalone way in.
Both can be hosted on a server and reached from your workstation.
Where to go next
- Tutorial — Explore your results.
- Reference — Metrics files · Commands
- Guides — Odatix Explorer · Results & export · Derived metrics