8.6. System Traffic Profiling using CPTracer on J7

8.6.1. Introduction

Common platform tracers (CP tracers) are bus probes which capture transaction statistics and logging across multiple interfaces on all Keystone devices. The CP tracers available in Keystone 3 are version 2 of the IP and provide 3 types of transaction data: throughput statistics, latency statistics, and transaction logging. The transaction data from the CP tracers can be captured on an on-chip embedded trace buffer (ETB) or exported to the pins to a supported debug probe. CP tracers provide a means to measure performance, identify bottle-necks, and pin-point transactions of interest across SoC interfaces.

There are a two ways to use CP tracers: CCS and CToolsLib.

System Traffic Profiling Using Code Composer Studio (CCS)

  • Traffic Profiling is available during a debug session on supported Keystone 3 devices via the SoC Analysis menu.

  • Enabling CP tracers via the Traffic Profiling application will provide a completely non-intrusive means of capturing transaction data without modifying your application code or test bench.

  • Traffic Profiling supports capture to the ETB and debug probes that support pin trace.

System Traffic Profiling Using CToolsLib

  • CToolsLib is a C software library that provides the APIs necessary to enable CP tracers and capture the trace data for post-processing.

  • Enabling CP tracers within application code will provide fine-grained control of when to capture transaction data.

  • CToolslib only supports capture to the ETB.

Note

  • It is HIGHLY recommended to use the CCS based traffic profiling for debug.

8.6.2. Documentation References

SDK Component

Documentation

Description

Section

Using CCS

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System traffic profiling using CCS

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Using ctools

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System traffic profiling using CToolsLib

Main Page