Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Base TRD 2019.2 - Design Module 3

Design Overview

• Boot RPU1 only
  • RPU1 OS: Bare-metal
• Bare-metal performance monitor application
  • Reads PS APM counters to measure CCI, Core Switch and DDR throughput and latency, then prints them to UART1

Design Components

• petalinux_bsp
• perfapm-ctl

Build Flow Tutorials

Perfapm-ctl Application

• Create a new Vitis workspace.

  % cd $TRD_HOME/workspaces/ws_perfapm-ctl
  % xsdk -workspace . &

• Click 'Import Project' from the welcome screen, Choose 'Eclipse workspace' and select next.
• Uncheck 'copy projects into workspace', browse to the current working directory and make sure the perfapm, perfapm-ctl and  projects are selected. Click Finish.

• Double click on 'perfapm-ctl_system.sprj' and close the dialog box for platform.

• from the top menu tab choose 'File' →  'New platform', enter Project name as 'hw_platform_0' and select 'Next'.

• Choose 'Create from hardware specification (XSA)' and browse to the xsa file in the 'hwfile' directory of 'ws_heartbeat workspace',
• Select operating system as 'standalone' and processor as 'psu_cortexr5_1' and click Finish.

• In the System Project Settings tab, Add the new custom platform generated from xsa. Click Yes on the dialog box, when prompted to change the platform.

• double click on 'perfapm-ctl.prj' in the Elplorer tab, and click 'Navigate to BSP settings'

• modify BSP settings for Cortexr5_1 processor

• under overview panel enable libraries 'libmetal' and 'openamp'.

• under standalone sttings modify 'stdin/stdout' to 'psu_uart_1', select ok.

• Right-click on the perfapm-ctl system and select 'Build Project'.

• Copy the generated perfapm-ctl executable into the PetaLinux BSP.

% cp perfapm-ctl/Debug/perfapm-ctl.elf $TRD_HOME/petalinux/bsp/images/linux

PetaLinux BSP

• Create a boot image

  % cd $TRD_HOME/petalinux/bsp/images/linux
  % petalinux-package --boot --bif=../../project-spec/boot/dm3.bif --force

• Copy the generated boot image to the dm3 SD card directory

  % mkdir -p $TRD_HOME/sd_card/dm3
  % cp BOOT.BIN $TRD_HOME/sd_card/dm3

Run Flow Tutorial

• See here for board setup instructions.
• Copy all the files from the $TRD_HOME/sd_card/dm3 SD card directory to a FAT formatted SD card.
• Power on the board to boot the images; make sure all power rail LEDs are lit green (Note: DS1 / FPGA_INIT_B LED remains Red as there is no bit stream to configure the FPGA).
• The user can now see FSBL prints on UART-0 and prints from bare-metal perfapm-ctl application can be viewed on UART-1.

• When prompted, user need to press 'Y' to turn on a dummy traffic generator that reads from OCM

  Turn on traffic generator? Enter 'Y' or 'N':

• View the application prints on UART-1 as shown in the pictures:

  |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
  |                      Performance Monitor APP                         |
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
  |Slot                |Write Byte Cnt |Read Byte Cnt |Total RW Byte Cnt |
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
  |DDR Slot1           |             0 |            0 |                0 |
  |DDR Slot2           |             0 |            0 |                0 |
  |DDR Slot3           |             0 |            0 |                0 |
  |DDR Slot4           |             0 |            0 |                0 |
  |DDR Slot5           |             0 |            0 |                0 |
  |OCM APM             |             0 |        20480 |                0 |
  |LPD_FPD             |             0 |          320 |                0 |
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------|