Specifications

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Chapter 2: Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS)

Creating A New Project With Given MHS

For creating a new project, use the command

load mhs <basename>.mhs.

XPS will read in the MHS file and create the new project. The project name will be same as

MHS basename. All the files generated will have the same name as MHS.

After reading in the MHS file, XPS will also assign various default drivers to each of the

peripheral instance, if a driver is known and available to XPS.

Opening An Existing Project

If you already have a XMP project file, you can load that file using command

load xmp <basename>.xmp.

XPS will read in the XMP file and load the project. Project name will be same as XMP

basename. Note that XPS will take the name of MSS file from the XMP file, if specified.

Otherwise, it will assume these files based on the XMP file name. If XMP file does not refer

to an MSS file, but the file exists in the projct directory, XPS will read that MSS file. If the file

does not exist, then XPS will create a new MSS file.

Reading MSS File

You can read in a MSS file using command

load mss <filename>.

Note that if user does not specify <filename>, it is assumed to be the file associated with

this project. Loading an MSS file will override any earlier settings. For example, if you

specify a new driver for a peripheral instance in the MSS file, the old driver for that

peripheral will be over ridden.

Saving Files and Project

Users can save MSS, XMP and make files for your project using the command

save [mss|xmp|make|proj].

Command save proj will save all the files.

Setting Project Options

Users can set various project options and other fields in XPS using the xset command.

Users can also display the current value of those fields by using xget commands. The

various options taken by the two commands are shown in Table 2-4.

xset option [value]

xget option

Table 2-4: Options for command xset and xget

Option Name Description

arch Set target device architecture

dev Set target part name