MeasuringthetimeconsumptionofapieceofcodebyCortex.pdfVIP

Measuring the time consumption of a piece of code by Cortex-M3 SWD/SWV IDE: IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM (v5.40) Hardware: Any target board based on ARM Cortex-M3 MCU Debugger: J-Link (version 6.0 or above) 1. Open the “Options” dialog of your project in EWARM: 2. Select “J-Link/J-Trace” as the debug probe: Copyright IAR Systems AB 2009 Page 1 of 7 Measuring the time consumption of a piece of code by Cortex-M3 SWD/SWV 3. Select “SWD” as the debug interface: 4. Add a macro “ITM_Port8” into your code: #define ITM_Port8(n) (*((volatile unsigned char *)(0xE0000000+4*n))) Add following statement at the beginning of the code to be measured: ITM_Port8(0) = 0; Add following statement at the end of the code to be measured: ITM_Port8(0) = 1; 5. Rebuild your project. Start the C-SPY debugger. Open the “SWO Settings” dialog: Copyright IAR Systems AB 2009 Page 2 of 7 Measuring the time consumption of a piece of code by Cortex-M3 SWD/SWV 6. Configure necessary options for SWO Settings: Set “CPU clock” according to the actual frequency of your target system; Enable “HW Trace” and “Timestamps”. Set “Resolution (cycles)” to 1; Enable “Autodetect” for “SWO clock”; Enable the ITM Stimulus Port 0. Copyright IAR Systems AB 2009 Page 3 of 7 Measuring the time consumption of a piece of code by Cortex-M3 SWD/SWV 7. Add two breakpoints before and after the code to be measured. The latter one should be set on the next statement of “ITM_Port8(0) = 1”. Copyright IAR Systems AB 2009 Page 4 of 7 Measuring the time consumption of a piece of code by Cortex-M3 SWD/SWV 8. Open the “SWO Trace” window: Copyright IAR Systems AB 2009