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Low Utilization on Portenta

  • June 25, 2026
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Hi, I have a custom U-Net model with MobileNetV2 encoder running on the Axelera portenta with voyager v1.4.0. I’ve based my code for inference on the axruntime python example in the Voyager github repository, with the model being compiled by the Voyager compiler. When running inference, the maximum utilization of the Metis, as shown by axmonitor, only reaches 6% on all four cores. 

I have tried running it with all pre-processing and post-processing commented out and a dummy input consisting of all zeroes, but utilization also did not surpass 6%. 


I’m wondering whether this utilization limit might be caused by the way the model is compiled, perhaps due to needing multiple iterations in the LowerTIR stage, and whether there might be more optimal compiler configs to achieve a higher utilization. 

I have included some logging / debug files the CLI compiler generated. For my current model I’m using the API compiler but it does not generate these, only differences between these model versions is that the model is a binary classifier now instead of 2 classes and the quantization process is more accurate. The 6% utilization is for both the 2 class and binary class model.