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:-
examine - Provides an overall status of a card including information on the kernels in card memory.
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program - Downloads a binary (
xclbin) to the programmable region of the AMD device.
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xbutil exmaine -r debug-ip-status -d <BDF> - Extracts the status of the Performance Monitors (
aimandasm) and the Lightweight AXI Protocol Checkers (lapc).