Cycle Count Profiling on ARM DS-5 Simulator

Question

I am trying to use a profiler on DS-5 Simulator. I dont want to attach any boards at this time and hence I believe I cannot use the Streamline Analyzer.

My question is how can I see code coverage and cycle count usage on DS-5 Simulator (Cortex A8) on Windows in Eclipse environment.

Thanks

Answer 1

The simulators that ARM provides are called Fast Models (or fixed virtual platforms, depending on the degree of flexibility you want). They are not designed to be cycle accurate, but are instead instruction accurate. Basically, they give you a "programmer's view" of a system.

For this reason, running Streamline on a model in order to optimize an application or system wouldn't give you a realistic performance profile.

Hope this helps!