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Vitis Tutorials: AI Engine Development (XD100)

Document ID
XD100
Release Date
2026-03-27
Version
2025.2 English

The AI Engine Pipeline view in the Vitis IDE enables you to correlate instructions executed in a specific clock cycle with the labels in the Disassembly view. The underlying AI Engine pipeline is exposed in debug mode using pipeline view.

  1. To enable pipleline view, in the Flow navigator under AIE SIMULATION/HARDWARE, select the Run Settings under aie_component_aiesim_1 Configuration. Select Enable Pipeline View. enable_pipeline view

  2. Select Generate Profile from the Profile Options.

  3. Enter the debug, as explained in the Debug Using Vitis the IDE Debugger section to observe a single core in the Debug window. The Pipeline View opens automatically when the IDE enters the debug mode. pipeline view

  4. Click the Step Over button, and observe the changes in the pipeline view and the Cycle Count,Program Counter in Runtime statistics. Use Pipeline View to see how many cycles a particular instruction takes.

  5. When debug is complete, click Resume to finish the simulation or Terminate to exit the debugger.