Lab 2: Performance Estimation

This tutorial demonstrates how to obtain an estimate of the expected performance of an application, without going through the entire build cycle.

Note: This tutorial is separated into steps, followed by general instructions and supplementary detailed steps, allowing you to make choices based on your skill level as you progress through it. If you need help completing a general instruction, go to the detailed steps, or if you are ready, simply skip the step-by-step directions and move on to the next general instruction.

Note: You can complete this tutorial even if you do not have a ZC702 board. When creating the SDSoC environment project, select your board and one of the available templates, if the suggested template Matrix Multiplication and Addition is not found. For example, boards such as the MicroZed with smaller Zynq-7000 devices offer the Matrix Multiplication and Addition (area reduced) application as an available template. A different application can be used to learn the objectives of this tutorial, as long as the application exits (this is a requirement to run the instrumented application on the board to collect software runtime data). Consult your board documentation for setup information.

Learning Objectives

After you complete the tutorial, you should be able to use the SDSoC environment to obtain an estimate of the speedup that you can expect from your selection of functions implemented in hardware.