CCS/DRA744: Profiling in Simulator.

Hello,

Jeevarathnam Kuppusamy said:

I am using a simulator of CCS V5 in current CCSV8.

Note that this is a completely unsupported configuration. Not only are simulators themselves no longer supported, but dropping in the simulator packages in CCSv8 was never supported. It is a configuration I would not recommended.

Jeevarathnam Kuppusamy said:

When I try to enable Function profiler I get the below error screen about UIA configuration.

Your screenshot did not get posted correctly. Please see this FAQ:

https://e2e.ti.com/support/tools/ccs/f/81/t/821597?tisearch=e2e-sitesearch&keymatch=faq%3Atrue

Thanks

ki

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Thanks,
ki

Hi Ki,

Sorry for late reply. please find the attached screenshot of the error message.

Its really important to profile the code with some tool. Where are the JTAG emulator is helpless with TI. Especially for multi-core and highspeed DSPs.

Regards,

Jeeva

Looks like you are trying to use System Analyzer. Does your application use SYS/BIOS and do you have UIA enabled?

Hi Ki,

I just want a function profiler on c66XX core. The Function profiler in HW trace analyzer is greyed out, I can't choose that. So the only option I have is in the System Analyzer --> Function profiler.

And I am not sure about the UIA Or don't know how to enable the UIA.

Regards,

Jeeva

Jeevarathnam Kuppusamy said:

The Function profiler in HW trace analyzer is greyed out

Since you are using a simulator, HW trace analyzer is not available

Jeevarathnam Kuppusamy said:

o the only option I have is in the System Analyzer --> Function profiler.

This is only available for SYS/BIOS projects (at least out of the box) that are properly instrumented for System Analyzer and have UIA enabled:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Multicore_System_Analyzer

Hi Ki,

yes, I know that about HW trace analyzer.

And I just checked in my installation Dir, there is uia_2_00_05_50 installed. Looks to me this should be enabled automatically.

And can you suggest what are the file should be added to profile in ccs?

is *.cfg only enough?

Or how to locate the correct UIA file.?

Regards,

Jeeva

Jeevarathnam Kuppusamy said:

And I just checked in my installation Dir, there is uia_2_00_05_50 installed. Looks to me this should be enabled automatically.

Your application must also be configured to actually use it

Jeevarathnam Kuppusamy said:

And can you suggest what are the file should be added to profile in ccs?

is *.cfg only enough?

Or how to locate the correct UIA file.?

Please take a look at: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Multicore_System_Analyzer

There is a User's Guide: http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruh43f/spruh43f.pdf

System Analyzer has a bit of a learning curve unfortunately. It is not something easily "turned on" to use out-of-the-box.

Again, note that you are using an unsupported configuration (simulators... especially old simulator packages from CCSv5 in CCSv8, and System Analyzer has been deprecated in support). Ideally you would want to use real HW with a trace pod to use HW Trace Analyzer.

Thanks

ki

Ki said:

Ideally you would want to use real HW with a trace pod to use HW Trace Analyzer.

If you go back to the HW route again, please try the latest CCSv9.2. We made some recent fixes regarding HW Trace for DRA74x.

Hi Ki,

This doesn't seem to me a quick and easy solution :-(

As I stated at the start of this thread;

As my issue is not resolved yet by TI. I am trying different way to profile my code for different way of optimizing.

And I would prefer to use the HW trace analyzer. But it has some issue and its not solved yet by TI. An at the moment I am kind of blocked on this. And trying to find alternate ways.

Regards,

Jeeva

As I mentioned in my last post, we have made some fixes/improvements with HW trace analyzer in recent CCS version.

For what it is worth, I was able to get it working for the C66x CPU on my DRA74x EVM when using CCSv9.2.0 (with a BH560v2 probe):

ok, Let me try and updat eyou .

Regards,

Jeeva

Hi Ki,

I have tried with CCS V9. It works but with below issues. But still I can't profile many functions in one go.

But very less functions can be profiled.but cannot be stopped at the correct function. Most of the times it hangs.

Once the Function profilers are closed in the current session. And it cannot be opened again in the same workspace on the next run.

I am using spectrum digital XDS560V2 USB traveler debugger.

Regards,

Jeeva