Using the Xilinx xbutil Utility - 2020.2 English

Vitis Unified Software Platform Documentation: Application Acceleration Development (UG1393)

Document ID
UG1393
Release Date
2021-03-22
Version
2020.2 English

The Xilinx board utility (xbutil) is a powerful standalone command line utility that can be used to debug lower level hardware/software interaction issues. A full description of this utility can be found in xbutil Utility.

With respect to debugging, the following xbutil options are of special interest:
query
Provides an overall status of a card including information on the kernels in card memory.
program
Downloads a binary (xclbin) to the programmable region of the Xilinx device.
status
Extracts the status of the Performance Monitors (spm) and the Lightweight AXI Protocol Checkers (lapc).