Profiling during hardware execution

[Davix]

Hi all,

I'm trying to execute a profiling of a kernel during hardware execution. I followed the guide inside the vitis documentation : https://www.xilinx.com/html_docs/xilinx2020_2/vitis_doc/profilingapplication.html.

In particular, the guide says that in order to enable the profiling during the execution of the kernel on the board, it is needed to add a flag option for the compilation of the kernel, and modify the xrt.ini file. I added the flag options, but i cannot find the xrt.ini file. I'm using Vitis IDE, and it should generate this file automatically, but it didn't happen. However, i tried to use the Run Configurations, in order to execute the application and the kernel on the board, but i cannot select the hw_server target, needed for the hardware execution.

The strange thing is that i run the hw_server is running, and also vitis is able to connect to the board.

How can i enable the hw_server selection in the Run Configurations?

[keanfj421ss]

Hello,

Try creating a file from the text editor name it xrt.ini  and paste following into the file:

[Debug]

profile=true

Edit : Move this file to your project directory

Later on when your hardware execution files generation ends. After running with hardware, run vitis_analyzer to check the waveforms.

Hope it helps.