VAI Trace Usage - 2.0 English

Vitis AI User Guide (UG1414)

Document ID
UG1414
Release Date
2022-01-20
Version
2.0 English

Command Line Usage

# vaitrace --help
usage: vaitrace [-h] [-c [CONFIG]] [-d] [-o [TRACESAVETO]] [-t [TIMEOUT]] [-v]
                [-b] [-p] [--va] [--xat] [--txt_summary] [--fine_grained]
                ...

positional arguments:
  cmd

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -c [CONFIG]       Specify the config file
  -d                Enable debug
  -o [TRACESAVETO]  Save report to, only avaliable for txt summary mode
  -t [TIMEOUT]      Tracing time limitation
  -v                Show version
  -b                Bypass vaitrace, just run command
  -p                Trace python application
  --va              Generate trace data for Vitis Analyzer
  --xat             Save raw data, for debug usage
  --txt_summary     Display txt summary
  --fine_grained    Fine grained mode

Following are some important and frequently-used arguments:

cmd
cmd is your executable program ofVitis AI that to be traced, including program name and arguments
-t
Controlling the tracing time (in seconds) starting from the [cmd] being launched, the default value is 30. In other words, if no -t is specified for vaitrace, the tracing will stop after [cmd] running for 30 seconds. The [cmd] will continue to run as normal, but it will stop collecting tracing data.
-c

You can start a tracing with more custom options by writing these options on a JSON configuration file and specify the configuration by -c. Details of configuration file will be explained in the next section.

-o
Location of the report. This is only available for the text summary mode. By default, the test summary will output to STDOUT.
--va
Generate trace data for Vitis Analyzer, enabled by default, cannot work together with --txt_summary
--txt_summary or --txt
Output text summary. vaitrace does not generate a report for the Vitis Analyzer in this mode, cannot work together with --va.
--fine_grained
Start trace in the fine grained mode. This mode generates a mass of trace data and the trace time is limited to 10 seconds.

Others arguments are used for debugging.