Quick start

This introduction to the tools aims to provide a quick tour of the available tools and how to use them to create, debug and deploy collaborative applications on an XCore platform.

Note

The reader is expected to already be familiar with:

• XCore architecture fundamentals

• XCore programming fundamentals

To try the examples described within this introduction, the reader will also need the following pre-requisites:

• Installed and configured tools

• An XTAG and XCORE-200-EXPLORER hardware

• Lightning intro
  • Build an executable
  • Run on real hardware
  • Run on the simulator
  • Summary
• Targeting multiple tiles
  • Using a mapfile
  • Summary
• Communicating between tiles
  • Declaring a channel in a mapfile
  • Using the channel
  • Summary
• Using XSCOPE for fast “printf debugging”
  • Configuring and using XSCOPE
  • Using XSCOPE “probes”
  • Summary
• Debugging with XGDB
  • Create example
  • Interactive debugging
  • Scripted debugging
  • Summary