The following image shows the Waveform view:
Figure 1. Waveform View
The Waveform and Live Waveform views are organized hierarchically for easy navigation.
- The Waveform view is based on the actual waveforms generated during hardware emulation (Kernel Trace). This allows the viewer to descend all the way down to the individual signals responsible for the abstracted data. However, because the Waveform view is generated from the post-processed data, no additional signals can be added to the report, and some of the runtime analysis cannot be visualized, such as DATAFLOW transactions.
- The Live Waveform viewer is displaying the Vivado logic simulator (
xsim
) run, so you can add extra signals and internals of the register transfer (RTL) design to the live view. Refer to the for information on working with the Waveform viewer.
The hierarchy of the Waveform and Live Waveform views include the following:
- Device "name"
- Target device name.
- Binary Container "name"
- Binary container name.
- Memory Data Transfers
- For each DDR Bank, this shows the trace of all the read and write request transactions arriving at the bank from the host.
- Kernel "name" 1:1:1
- For each kernel and for each compute
unit of that kernel, this section breaks down the
activities originating from the compute unit.
- Compute Unit: "name"
- Compute unit name.
- CU Stalls (%)
- Stall signals are provided by the Vitis HLS tool to inform you when a
portion of the circuit is stalling because of
external memory accesses, internal streams (that
is, dataflow), or external streams (that is,
OpenCL
pipes). The stall bus shown in detailed kernel
trace compiles all of the lowest level stall
signals and reports the percentage that are
stalling at any point in time. This provides a
factor of how much of the kernel is stalling at
any point in the simulation.
For example, if there are 100 lowest level stall signals and 10 are active on a given clock cycle, then the CU Stall percentage is 10%. If one goes inactive, then it is 9%.
- Data Transfers
- This shows the read/write data transfer accesses originating from each Master AXI port of the compute unit to the DDR.
- User Functions
- This information is available for the HLS kernels and shows the
user functions.
- Function: "name"
- Function name.