IDE and Contraints Report

[jb007]

Hi. I'm using xTIMEcomposer Community 13.1.0 and would like to get a constraints report. A quick search found this topic https://www.xcore.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=772 which states:

Go to the menu item [Project > Properties]. From there, choose "C/XC Build", then "Settings". Under "Mapper/Linker" go to "Tool Settings", then "Reports", and choose "Show Constraint Report".

Unfortunately this menu option does not exist in my version of the IDE.

Does it now exist, and if so where?

Jim

[richard]

There is now a graphical viewer integrated into the IDE that lets you view this information. Simply double click on a .xe file in the project explorer and it will open the binary viewer that shows the resource usage.

If you still want to see the textual report you can edit the Makefile for you app and add the -report option to the XCC_FLAGS. This way every time you build a summary of the resource usage will be displayed in the console tab.

[jb007]

Thanks for your help Richard. The binary viewer works a treat, but my make file contains the following switches

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-O3 -g -report

I'm expecting to get output to the console when I build the project, but I don't. Am I still missing/doing something wrong?

Jim

[richard]

I'm expecting to get output to the console when I build the project, but I don't. Am I still missing/doing something wrong?

Do you get any output in the console? Normally I'd expect the output to look like this:

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**** Build of configuration Default for project app_xscope_realtime_example ****

xmake all 
No modules used.
Creating dependencies for xscope_realtime.xc
Compiling xscope_realtime.xc
Creating app_xscope_realtime_example.xe
Constraint check for "tile[0]" (node "0", tile 0):
  Cores available:            8,   used:          1 .  OKAY
  Timers available:          10,   used:          2 .  OKAY
  Chanends available:        32,   used:          1 .  OKAY
  Memory available:       65536,   used:      14792 .  OKAY
    (Stack: 1920, Code: 11680, Data: 1192)
Constraints checks PASSED.
Constraint check for "tile[1]" (node "1", tile 0):
  Cores available:            8,   used:          1 .  OKAY
  Timers available:          10,   used:          1 .  OKAY
  Chanends available:        32,   used:          1 .  OKAY
  Memory available:       65536,   used:       1688 .  OKAY
    (Stack: 336, Code: 1212, Data: 140)
Constraints checks PASSED.
Build Complete

Note the report is only shown if the application needs building. If you see something like:

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xmake all 
No modules used.
xmake[1]: `bin//app_xscope_realtime_example.xe' is up to date.
Build Complete

Then you'll need to clean the app before rebuilding.