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DAPLink (CMSIS-DAP v2 / SWD) Performance Test

Test Setup​

  • Probe: custom DAPLink (CMSIS-DAP v2)
    • MCU: CH32V307 @ 144 MHz
    • SWD: GPIO bit-banging (SwdGeneralGPIO)
  • USB: USBHS (High-Speed)
    • Endpoint type: Bulk
    • MaxPacketSize: 512
  • Compiler optimization: -O3
  • Target: STM32F401RC
  • SWD clock: host Speed=10000; measured max stable frequency ~10 MHz

daplink-benchmark

Test Code​

static constexpr auto USB_OTG_HS_LANG_PACK =
      LibXR::USB::DescriptorStrings::MakeLanguagePack(
          LibXR::USB::DescriptorStrings::Language::EN_US,
          "XRobot", "CMSIS-DAP", "XROBOT-XRDAP-");

LibXR::USB::CDCUart cdc(128, 128, 3);

LibXR::Debug::SwdGeneralGPIO swd(PA0, PA4, 0);

USB::DapLinkV2Class dap(swd);

LibXR::CH32USBDeviceHS usb_dev_hs(
    ...
    /* config */
    {{&dap, &cdc}},
    {reinterpret_cast<void*>(0x1FFFF7E8), 12});
...

Methodology​

This benchmark includes two groups of metrics:

  1. Throughput (different block sizes): use probe-rs benchmark output with the following fixed parameters:
  • Speed=10000
  • Word size=32bit
  • Iterations=32
  • Vary Data length: 32 / 128 / 2048 / 32768 bytes
  1. SRAM read/write upper bound (fixed length): use OpenOCD + TCL scripts to measure write/read/e2e timing over a specified SRAM address range.

Results​

Throughput (different block sizes)​

Speed=10000, Word size=32bit, Iterations=32:

  • Data length = 32 bytes

    • Read : 167394.75 bytes/s (Std Dev 26285.19)
    • Write: 164495.92 bytes/s (Std Dev 35468.60)

  • Data length = 128 bytes

    • Read : 365890.08 bytes/s (Std Dev 42441.94)
    • Write: 376733.44 bytes/s (Std Dev 66519.33)

  • Data length = 2048 bytes

    • Read : 596184.47 bytes/s (Std Dev 19107.54)
    • Write: 613571.24 bytes/s (Std Dev 34987.02)

  • Data length = 32768 bytes

    • Read : 598801.08 bytes/s (Std Dev 9090.12)
    • Write: 625560.76 bytes/s (Std Dev 12092.70)

SRAM Read/Write Upper Bound (fixed length)​

  • SRAM_WRITE_LIMIT: 49152 bytes in 0.066248 s (724.55 KiB/s)
  • SRAM_READ: 49152 bytes in 0.069153 s (694.11 KiB/s)
  • SRAM_E2E (write+read): 98304 bytes in 0.135401 s (709.01 KiB/s)

Summary​

This benchmark measures SRAM access throughput on an STM32F401RC target using a CH32V307-based USBHS (512B Bulk) CMSIS-DAP v2 implementation (DAPLink) with GPIO bit-banged SWD.

Under Speed=10000, 32-bit accesses, and 32 iterations, large transfers (2 KB to 32 KB) achieve stable read/write throughput around 0.6 MB/s. For a fixed length of 48 KiB, end-to-end SRAM throughput (write+read) is about 709 KiB/s.