Running Hardware Emulation - 2023.2 English

Vitis Tutorials: Hardware Acceleration (XD099)

Document ID
XD099
Release Date
2023-11-13
Version
2023.2 English

The application can be run in hardware emulation mode in a similar way as software emulation. The only change needed is TARGET, which should be set to hw_emu.

NOTE: Hardware Emulation may take a long time. The Makefile default setting will make sure it simulates only a single image, but it is recommended in case of the random input image that image size be set smaller by keeping image height in the range of 30-100 pixels. The height and width of the image can be specified in the make_options.mk file.

  1. Launch hardware emulation using the following command:

make run TARGET=hw_emu

It will build the hardware kernel in emulation mode and then launch the host application. The output printed in the console window will be similar to the sw_emu case. But after hardware emulation, you can analyze different synthesis reports and view different waveforms using Vitis Analyzer.