Use the Performance Counters view to display information on
performance counter traces. By default, the Performance Counters view opens up
as minimised on the PIAnalyzer main view. To view the graphs, click the restore
button or
the maximize button
on the Title bar.
The Performance Counters displayed in the view include two user selected traces (A and B in Figure 1) and CPU cycles (C in Figure 1). A MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) counter is also available if Instructions executed has been selected as one of the traces.
You can select which traces are displayed in the graphs view by clicking the check box next to the trace name in the legend table below the graphs. When several traces are selected, a separate graph line is displayed for each trace, as shown in Figure 1.
In the top left-hand corner of each graph line, the following information displayed:
Note that the scaling of the graphs changes according to the maximum values for each graph. You can see the vertical axis values for each graph on the left side of the graph.
A legend table is displayed below the graphs.
Figure 1. Performance Counters view with all trace graphs displayed
Description of the table columns:
Check the boxes at the right side of the table to select the traces for the graphs view.
Columns may be reordered, resized, and sorted by clicking or dragging column headers.
You can right-click on the table to open a context menu, where you can select to copy either selected lines or the entire table to clipboard; or to save the table to CSV format.
MIPS counter and graph
The Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS) graph gives you a general idea of CPU speed in a measured use case. For more information, see MIPS Counter and Graph.