Tools basics

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.

It shows some of the underlying tools used by the XMOS build system which has been introduced in the previous sections on using VS Code and using the Command Line tools.

• 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