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 XTC Tools and third-party tools

• An XMOS target system which may require a separate xTAG

• A single-tile program
  • Build an executable
  • Running the program on the simulator
  • Run on real hardware
  • Summary
• Targeting multiple tiles
  • Providing a multi-tile file
  • Summary
• Communicating between tiles
  • Declaring a channel in the multi-tile file
  • 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
• Build system