Changes between Version 13 and Version 14 of Exercises/13_4/IntroToSDK


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    4 In this exercise, users will be introduced to two tools that are used heavily in WARP development: the Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) and the Software Development Kit (SDK). Users will use these tools to construct a simple "Hello World" software project that prints messages via UART to a terminal running on the user's PC and controls the User I/O on the board to run on and off LEDs and display numbers on the hexadecimal displays.
     4In this exercise, users will be introduced to a tool that is used heavily in WARP development: the Xilinx Software Development Kit (SDK). Users will use these tools to construct a simple "Hello World" software project that prints messages via UART to a terminal running on the user's PC and controls the User I/O on the board to run on and off LEDs and display numbers on the hexadecimal displays.
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    6 First, we briefly describe the tools that will be used in this exercise.
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    8 === Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) ===
    9 Simply put, XPS is the tool that lets you connect your own custom FPGA designs to the custom constraints of the WARP v3 hardware. It also lets you draw from a library of Xilinx-provided peripheral cores (known as pcores) to use in your design. For example, to use the Ethernet hardware on WARP v3, the XPS project you use will need to instantiate an Ethernet MAC peripheral. For our designs, we use the Tri-Mode Ethernet Media Access Controller (TEMAC) to accomplish this. Also, XPS lets you instantiate a processor for running custom software known as MicroBlaze. To write code for MicroBlaze, a different tool known as the Software Development Kit (SDK) is used.
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    12 === Software Development Kit (SDK) ===
    136The SDK will look very familiar to users who are comfortable with the [http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse IDE]. Basically, the SDK allows users to write custom C or C++ code to execute on the MicroBlaze processor. Furthermore, it natively supports step-by-step debugging of code as well as code profiling.
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