Enable hardware based performance monitoring
Configures how many counters are available for hardware based performance monitoring - to count events such as cache misses. Each configured counter comprises a pair of registers: control and status.
The Xplorer Profile launch can make use of either performance counters or a hardware timer for hardware based performance monitoring. Timer based monitoring can only count cycles, but is available with earlier processor versions. Performance counters provide for more sophisticated monitoring, and options within the launch dialog allow assignment of different types of events to the available counters. Note that programs have to be linked with a specific option (-hwpg) to make use of hardware performance monitoring (see Build Properties -> Linker Options).