Getting Started with Xilinx SDK

The Xilinx® Software Development Kit (SDK) is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for development of embedded software applications targeted towards Xilinx embedded processors. SDK works with hardware designs created with Vivado® Design Suite. SDK is based on the Eclipse open source standard. SDK features include:

  • Feature-rich C/C++ code editor and compilation environment
  • Project management
  • Application build configuration and automatic Makefile generation
  • Error navigation
  • Well-integrated environment for seamless debugging and profiling of embedded targets
  • Source code version control
  • System level performance analysis
  • Focussed special tools to configure FPGA.
  • Bootable Image creation
  • Flash Programming
  • Scriptable command-line tool