HDB Editor (hdbeditor) is a graphical frontend for creating and modifying Hardware Databases i.e. HDB files (see Section 2.2.2 for details). By default, all the example HDB files are stored in the directory hdb/ of the TCE installation directory.
This section is intended to familiarize the reader to basic usage of the HDB Editor.
HDB editor can be launched from command line by entering:
hdbeditor
You can also give a .hdb-file as parameter for the hdbeditor:
hdbeditor customHardware.hdb
Choose ``File'' | ``Create HDB...''. From there, type a name for your .hdb file and save it in the default HDB path (tce/hdb).
After that, you can start adding new TTA components such as function units, register files, buses and sockets from ``Edit'' | ``Add''.
The architecture implementation can be given either by hand or by a VHDL file.
After setting up the architecture, one can add new entries (function units, register files, buses, sockets) for the architectures.
Pekka Jääskeläinen 2011-12-08