How to count every repeat string instruction as a single instruction when relog pinball？

[Huajing-Young]

When generating region pinball with Intel® Software Development Emulator (Intel® SDE)， how can I make sure the sde counts every repeat string instruction as a single instruction and ignores all the internal iterations？

For example: there is a region pinball which contains 2M instructions（start:icount:8000000,stop:icount:10000000）， while 20k of them are separated rep instructions. I want to generate a new region pinball which has the same start:icount and stop:icount, but counts every repeat string instruction as a single instruction and ignores all the internal iterations.

thank you very much!

@AdyT_Intel 

[AdyT_Intel]

By default Intel SDE controller counts every repeat iteration as an instruction count.

The controller provides an option to count every repeat string instruction as a single count and skip the internal repeat counts.

Use the instcount alarm type as in start:instcount:8000000,stop:instcount:10000000.

You can get both counts with the icount tool when adding the -icount-norep knob.

More information is available in the documentation inside the kit under the doc directory.