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What is the MHS file?

What does the PlatGen tool do?

What tool is used to place executable code in an FPGA block

RAM?

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What is the MHS file?
The MHS file is the Microprocessor Hardware Specification; it specifies processors, hardware peripherals, bus connections, and address spaces for the hardware

What does the PlatGen tool do?

PlatGen takes the MHS file and creates the system and peripheral netlists, HDL wrapper files, BMM file, etc.

What tool is used to place executable code in an FPGA block

RAM?
The BitInit tool will take the BMM file and create the proper initialization for the block RAM that is assigned to the executable memory space

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How can you add or change hardware configuration settings once
the hardware system is build?

What does the LibGen tool do? What is the difference between system.bit and download.bit files?

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How can you add or change hardware configuration settings once
the hardware system is build?
Select an IP instance in the System Assembly View panel, right click on it, and select Configure IP Select available tabs and appropriate options and make changes to the parameters Alternately, you can modify MHS file with correct Parameter name and value

What does the LibGen tool do?

Read MSS file and generate libraries

What is the difference between system.bit and download.bit files?

The system.bit file contains only hardware description whereas download.bit file contains both hardware description as well as executable software

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What is FSL?

How many FSL channels are supported by MicroBlaze?

How FSL can improve performance?

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What is FSL?
FSL is a dedicated simplex link with a FIFO interface

How many FSL channels are supported by MicroBlaze?

16

How FSL can improve performance?

Since FSL is a dedicated link with a fixed latency
Bus arbitration does not exist

FSL is useful for hardware acceleration

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What are some of the advantages of using ISE and XPS integration?

What are some of the advantages of using Xflow and XPS integration?

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What are some of the advantages of using ISE and XPS integration?
Add additional logic to the FPGA design Synthesize the design by utilizing ISE-supported synthesis tools Control the FPGA implementation flow by using ISE

What are some of the advantages of using Xflow and XPS integration?
One GUI to perform all design work Simple push-button flow

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What is the process for creating a peripheral of custom IP in XPS?

If you are using a third-party synthesis tool to compile your IP,

what files are required to integrate that IP into XPS?
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What is the process for creating a peripheral of custom IP in XPS?

Start the Create and Import Wizard tool from XPS Select the Create templates for a new peripheral option Identify the destination directory location Select the bus interface Select functionality and any interrupts Define any software registers and address ranges Add additional signals which the peripheral may be using Generate the files Add user logic in user_logic.vhd

If you are using a third-party synthesis tool to compile your IP,

what files are required to integrate that IP into XPS?
MPD and BBD files
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What GNU GCC option is used to specify that debugging
information should be placed in the executable?

What objdump option is used to display header information?

What libraries are created when LibGen is run?

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What GNU GCC option is used to specify that debugging
information should be placed in the executable? -g

What objdump option is used to display header information? -h What libraries are created when LibGen is run? code, include, lib, and libsrc

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What is included in a BSP?

What are some of the differences between a Level 0 and a Level 1

driver?

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What is included in a BSP?
IP drivers Processor functions Library functions

What are some of the differences between a Level 0 and a Level 1

driver?
Size Functionality Ease of use

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List libraries supported and their functionality

How many interrupt pins are present on MicroBlaze?

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List libraries supported and their functionality
Fatfs provides file support functions MFS provides memory file system support functions lwip provides networking support functions including handling of multiple connections Flash provides read/write/erase types of functions for Intel parallel flash devices so user can program flash memory during run-time Isf provides functions for in-system and serial flash devices

How many interrupt pins are present on MicroBlaze?

One

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When do you need to use a linker script?

What does a linker script do?

List some MicroBlaze processor address space restrictions

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When do you need to use a linker script?
When you have software developed in multiple source files and the compiled object code needs to be placed in different memory structures or in nonstandard configurations

What does a linker script do?

The linker script controls the placement of the object code, data, stack, and heap in specific memory locations

List some MicroBlaze processor address space restrictions

If you are not using xmdstub, ensure that crt0 is loaded in memory at 0 Must have writable memory from 0x00000000 to 0x0000004F
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What does .sdata2 section contain? What does .sdata section contain? What does .sbss section contain?

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What does .sdata2 section contain?
Small read-only data

What does .sdata section contain?

Small read-write data

What does .sbss section contain?

Small un-initialized data
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What tool is used to connect the GNU Debugger to the hardware
target?

Into what parts of the design do debuggers provide visibility?

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What tool is used to connect the GNU Debugger to the hardware
target?
XMD

Into what parts of the design do debuggers provide visibility?

Registers Memory Stack Variables Expressions

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