How to use the Profile in CCS v4?

Summer,

The type of profiling you can do varies based on which device you are using.  C6x simulators tend to offer the most profiling capabilities while C6x hardware has the least.  The wiki topic below covers the basics on how to use the profiler:

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

If you don't see anything listed in the profile setup tool then the only option available to you for your target may be the profile clock.  The following topic discusses how to use the clock on C28x targets, however the information works for other devices as well.

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Profiling_on_C28x_Targets

Regards,

John

John, Thank you very much.

I am using C6416 simulator. I have read the wiki topic on profiler. However, there is still something that I cannot figure out.

When I want to derive the cycles for some specific lines in the program, for example "puts("hello world!\n");" in the following program, I did the following steps.

First, set "Pause Profiling" at the first line of this program. Second, set "Resume Profiling" at the line of "puts("hello world!\n");" . Third, set "Pause Profiling" at the line of "#ifdef FILEIO". 

These steps are learnt from the web. However, I don't know the reason of setting the first "Pause Profiling" at the first line, can you explain this for me?

Another question: where can I find the explaination of the terms in the Properties of each Activities in Profile Setup?

Thank you.

void main()
{
#ifdef FILEIO
    int       i;
    char      scanStr[BUFSIZE];
    char      fileStr[BUFSIZE];
    size_t    readSize;
    FILE      *fptr;
#endif

puts("hello world!\n");

#ifdef FILEIO
    /* clear char arrays */
    for (i = 0; i < BUFSIZE; i++)
    {
        scanStr[i] = 0;       /* deliberate syntax error */
        fileStr[i] = 0;
    }
   
    /* read a string from stdin */
    scanf("%s", scanStr);

........

Thank you very much.

Now I can use Profiler properly.