System Performance Modeling - 2022.2 English

Vitis Unified Software Platform Documentation: Embedded Software Development (UG1400)

Document ID
UG1400
Release Date
2023-01-02
Version
2022.2 English

System Performance Modeling (SPM) offers system-level performance analysis for characterizing and evaluating the performance of hardware and software systems. In particular, it enables analysis of the critical partitioning trade-offs between the Arm® Cortex A9 processors and the programmable fabric for a variety of different traffic scenarios. It provides graphical visualizations of AXI transaction traces and system-level performance metrics such as throughput, latency, utilization, and congestion.

SPM can be used in two ways:

  • Using a predefined design provided with the Vitis software platform
  • With the user design

In the current release, SPM is supported only for baremetal/standalone applications.

The following diagram shows the system performance modeling flow.

Figure 1. System Performance Modeling Flow