Viewing Guidance Using Vitis Analyzer - 2022.1 English

Versal ACAP AI Engine Programming Environment User Guide (UG1076)

Document ID
UG1076
Release Date
2022-05-25
Version
2022.1 English
Viewing design guidance helps to evaluate design performance and highlights areas of the design where performance tuning is recommended. In Vitis Analyzer, you can view the design guidance generated by tool as follow:
  1. Open the run summary file, xrt.run_summary, with the following command:
    vitis_analyzer xrt.run_summary
  2. In Vitis Analyzer, click Run Guidance in the summary view to view guidance information.
  3. From Guidance view, there are recommended predefined threshold values and actual result from the design under reviewed.
  4. Click on the guidance name for better description of the guidance rule. For example, AIE_STALL has the description of The rule checks the stall percentage of AI Engine tiles.
  5. The predefined values can be adjusted by clicking on the predefined value shown in blue and update with preferred value. Doing so to filter out rules in the guidance view for the design.
  6. Click on percentage value of the guidance rule to open the Profile Summary of the design.
  7. Click on highlighted hyperlink, as shown for guidance resolution from the tool, to help improve design performance.