wiki:Good Design Flow Practice for XPS8.0

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Good Design Flow Practice for XPS 8.0

Preface

Xilinx Platform Studio grants users many of the same freedoms any other programs would; naming files whatever you want, saving files wherever you want, placing directories wherever you want, etc. etc. etc.

Despite being granted such freedoms, however, XPS can be extremely picky about how things are named and where they are placed -- even the order in which you generate different parts of the system. That said, this section will contain a system of steps and notes, that although some of which may not be required, will help ensure that you avoid any unnecessary errors that might set you back hours or days.

1: Project Creation

  • Make sure the directory structure and folder that will hold your system file has no spaces or underscores.

Good example:

c:\projects\users\scott\MGTLoopback1\system.xmp

Bad example:

c:\XPS_Projects\users\scott\MGT Loopback Demo\system.xps 
  • Name the system,
    system.xmp