For step 1, the following steps were performed. All commands are run in the ./reference-files directory:
# Build the application
make all TARGET=sw_emu LAB=run1
# Set XCL_EMULATION_MODE environment variable for software emulation
export XCL_EMULATION_MODE=sw_emu
# Run software emulation
./host_1 krnl_vadd.sw_emu.xclbin
# View Application Timeline Trace in Vitis Analyzer
vitis -a xrt.run_summary