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What is bsb – Digilent XUPV2P User Manual

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May 2005

XUPV2P BSB support 2

What is BSB?

The Base System Builder (BSB) wizard is a software tool that help users quickly

build a working system targeted at a specific development board.

Based on the user’s board selection, BSB will offer the user a number of options

for creating a basic system on that board. These options include processor type,

debug interface, cache configuration, memory type and size, and peripheral

selection. For each option, functional default values will be preselected in the

GUI.

Upon exit of BSB, a hardware specification (MHS) file and software specification

(MSS) file will be created and loaded into the user’s XPS project. The user may

then optionally further enhance the design in the Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS)

GUI.

The Base System Builder will also optionally generate a software project called

“TestApp” which contains a sample application and linker script and can be

compiled and run on the hardware on the target development board. Note that

XPS supports multiple software projects for every hardware system, each of

which may contain its own set of source files and linker script.

Chapter 3 of the EDK System Tools Manual is good reference:

http://www.xilinx.com/ise/embedded/est_rm.pdf