User guide

Nios II IDE Help System

Profiling Perspective

You open this perspective by pointing to Open Perspective on the Window menu, and

either clicking Profiling or clicking Other..., and then double-clicking Profiling in the

Open Perspective list.

The Nios II IDE Profiling perspective allows you to conveniently capture and analyze profiling

data stored in a gmon.out data file. The display features of the Profiling perspective make the

data much easier to read and analyze, compared to reading the standard gprof text output.

By default the Profiling perspective displays four views that work in conjunction with each

other and are the most useful views for analyzing the gmon.out data.

Editor view which runs gprof on the gmon.out data and displays the results

Call Hierarchy view

Samples—Line By Line view

Samples—Function Total view