AI Engine Debug with AI Engine Emulator - 2022.2 English

Vitis Tutorials: AI Engine (XD100)

Document ID
XD100
Release Date
2022-12-01
Version
2022.2 English

AI Engine emulator provides the following features:

  • Cycle approximate simulation.

  • Hardware constraints check such as AI Engine heap/stack/program memory size.

  • Functional verification of kernel code via printf() and value change dump (VCD) file generation.

  • Performance verification of kernel code using VCD file generation and generating profile reports.

  • Out of bound memory access checks of kernel code.

The following steps showcase AI Engine Emulator features:

1. AI Engine Emulator Source Code Debug

2. AI Engine Emulator Trace and Profile Data Generation

3. AI Engine Emulator printf support

4. AI Engine Emulator –enable-memory-check option

5. Command-Line Project Source Code Debug with AI Engine emulator