Xilinx Profiling view

The Xilinx Profiling view in Xilinx® SDK presents a view of your profiling results to visualize the statistics for the profiled Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file.

Launching the Profiling view

Once the program completes execution (reaches exit), or when you click the Stop button to stop the program, SDK downloads the profile data and stores it in a file named gmon.out.
To view the profile results, double click on the gmon.out file in the Project Explorer view (or drag the file into the editing area).
The Profiling view opens at the bottom of the SDK window.

Profiling results overview

The Xilinx Profiling view comprises the following columns:

Column	Description
Name	Name of the function and the file in which it resides
Samples	Number of times the profile timer interrupt handler detected that the program executed the corresponding function
Calls	Number of calls made to the corresponding function
Time/Call	Time usage per function call invocation
%Time	Percentage of time spent in the function

An example of the profiling results view is shown below.

SDK Profiling Results

Profile overview