Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Exercises/13_4/IntroToSDK

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Aug 3, 2012, 4:02:07 PM (12 years ago)

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chunter

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 1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the location of your project folder on your hard drive. Inside this project folder, you will find the system.xmp file as well as a few other folders. Create another folder at this level (e.g. the same level as "import") and name it "workspace."
 1. With XPS still open, launch the Xilinx SDK from the Start Menu. It will ask you to select a workspace. Click "Browse ..." and navigate to the "workspace" folder you just created. Click OK. Now close the SDK and return to XPS.
+1. In XPS, go to the "Project" menu item and click "Export Hardware Design to SDK..." Then, click "Export & Launch SDK." This will use the workspace you pointed to in the SDK in the previous step. Simply click "OK" at the window that pops up that asks you to select your SDK workspace.
+1. At this step in the process, you can close XPS. We'll be working in the SDK exclusively for the rest of the exercise.
+1. Rather strangely, the Xilinx SDK does not automatically know about software drivers to custom peripherals in your XPS project. You have to explicitly tell the SDK where to find your hardware project. This is a step you have to do with '''every''' new SDK workspace. In this exercise, we do not have any custom peripherals, but it is still a good habit to get into. Click on the "Xilinx Tools" menu item and select "Repositories." Here, you want to ensure two things:
+ * In Local Repositories, you want to point the SDK to the folder that contains the XPS project system.xmp file. Click on "New..." and navigate to and select this folder.
+ * In Global Repositories, you want the SDK to point to the edk_user_repository folder on your hard drive. Unlike the local repositories, the SDK does remember this setting across workspaces. You'll only need to manually add the edk_user_repository the first time you run the SDK.
+1. Now, we need to create what is known as a "Board Support Package" (BSP). A BSP is basically a project of supporting software for your own software project. It is a collection of drivers for peripherals in your design as well as higher-level software like a TCP/IP networking stack if you need it. C
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