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Mounir Maaref
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Mounir Maaref

Mounir Maaref lives in the UK and works as a Principal SoC Architect. He has 25 years of experience in the microelectronics industry spanning FPGAs, ASICs, embedded processing, networking, data storage, satellite communications, Bluetooth, and WiFi connectivity. He likes working on cutting edge technologies involving both hardware and soft ware. His main focus is on the system architecture design, hardware and software interactions, performance analysis, and modeling. He has published several application notes and white papers and has been a speaker at many conferences worldwide. He holds a masters degree in Electronics and Telecoms. He is a 2nd dan black belt in Tang Soo Do and is getting trained to become a martial arts instructor.
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Embedded software profiling using the Vitis IDE

To use the Vitis IDE for software profiling, we need to connect to a target hardware board. To launch the software profiling, follow the next steps:

  1. Click on the arrow next to the play button in the Vitis IDE main menu. Click Run Configurations….

Figure 9.22 – Launching the Profiling menu in the Vitis IDE

  1. The Run Configuration menu will open. Select the Debugger_ETS_SoC_CA9-Performance under SPM Analysis as shown. This window will allow you to configure the profiling launch options.

Figure 9.23 – Configuring the Profiling Launch Options in the Vitis IDE

  1. Click Debug to connect the debugger to the target hardware board for profiling.

You can now profile the application software running on the Cortex-A9 processor on the target hardware board. You can examine the call graph and the histograms and study the system’s runtime behavior...

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Mounir Maaref

Mounir Maaref lives in the UK and works as a Principal SoC Architect. He has 25 years of experience in the microelectronics industry spanning FPGAs, ASICs, embedded processing, networking, data storage, satellite communications, Bluetooth, and WiFi connectivity. He likes working on cutting edge technologies involving both hardware and soft ware. His main focus is on the system architecture design, hardware and software interactions, performance analysis, and modeling. He has published several application notes and white papers and has been a speaker at many conferences worldwide. He holds a masters degree in Electronics and Telecoms. He is a 2nd dan black belt in Tang Soo Do and is getting trained to become a martial arts instructor.
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