Specifications

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Chapter 8
Platform Specification Utility
This chapter describes the various features and the usage of the Platform Specification
Utility (PsfUtil) tool that enables automatic generation of Microprocessor Peripheral
Description files (MPD) required to create an IP core compliant with the Embedded
Development Kit (EDK). Many of these features may be used with the help of wizards in
the Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) GUI tool.
This chapter contains the following sections.
x “Tool Options”
x “Overview of the MPD Creation Process”
x “Detailed Use Models for Automatic MPD Creation”
x “About Specification of VHDL Attributes”
x “DRC Checks in PsfUtility”
x “Verilog Language Support”
x “VHDL Peripheral Definitions”
Tool Options
-h
Display Usage
-v
Display version
-hdl2mpd <hdlfile>
Generate MPD from VHDL/Ver src/prj file.
Sub-options:
-lang <ver|vhdl|pao>
Specify language
-top <design>
Specify top level entity/module name
{-bus <opb|plb|dcr|lmb> <m|s|ms>}
Specify one or more Bus Interfaces of the core
{-tbus <transparent_bus_name> bram_port}
Specify one or more Transparent Bus Interfaces of the core