Hello all,
I am a beginner with the Xilinx EDK and Platform Studio software for programming a Microblaze processor. I have googled several EDK tutorials, but few have met my platform specifications (v10.1, Microblaze processor) and I'm having some trouble downloading my software design to the Spartan-3E board.
Currently, I have the hardware design in place and I wrote a simple program to turn on a few of the LED's on the starter board. Now after wrestling with this for a few days I finally got the program to run via the XMD (Xilinx Microprocessor Debugger) by connecting to the processor and executing the 'run' command.
My question is this - how do you run the program after you download the bit file (with both the hardware design and the software application) without using the debugger?
Any help or input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Ray
P.S. My program code is below:
#include "xparameters.h" #include "stdio.h" #include "xbasic_types.h" #include "xgpio.h" #include "gpio_header.h" #include "uartlite_header.h"
int main (void) {
XGpio Lights;
if (XGpio_Initialize(&Lights, XPAR_LEDS_8BIT_DEVICE_ID) != XST_SUCCESS) { printf("Failed to initalize the LEDs.\r\n"); } else { while(1){ XGpio_SetDataDirection(&Lights, 1, 0x00); XGpio_DiscreteWrite(&Lights, 1, 0x0A); } }
return 0; }