88 HB700 | CPU | PMC921xEx | en | 24-04
Deployment CPU iC921xM-EC
Programming and file system > Create a new project
‘Plant’ area
Editor area
Cross-functional area
Status bar
Proceeding
In the ‘Plant
’ area, you map all the physical and logical components of your application as
a hierarchical tree structure.
■ Double-clicking on a node in the ‘Plant’
area or on an element in the ‘Components’
area opens the associated editor group in the editor area.
■ Editor groups are always shown in the center of the user interface.
■ Each editor group contains several editors, which can be opened and closed using
buttons in the editor group.
■ You can identify the corresponding editor based on the color representation of the
editor group:
– Blue: Editor from the area ‘
Plant’.
– Orange: Editor from the area ‘Components
’.
The cross-functional area contains functions that extend across your entire project.
■ ERROR LIST
– All errors, warnings and messages of the current project are shown here.
■ GLOBAL FIND AND REPLACE
– Here you can find and replace text in the project.
■ CROSS REFERENCES
– All cross references within the project are shown here, such as the use and decla-
ration of all variable types.
■ WATCH WINDOW
– Debug tool - the current values of the added variables are shown here in online
mode.
■ BREAKPOINTS
– Debug tool - here you can set and reset breakpoints for troubleshooting.
■ CALL STACKS
– Debug tool - the sequence of calls when the code is executed is shown here and
commands for debugging with breakpoints are made available.
■ LOGIC ANALYSIS
– Here variable values can be recorded and visualized during runtime.
■ PROTOCOL
– All errors, warnings and messages are output here.
‘Online’: Messages from the runtime environment as well as other errors and warn-
ings relating to online communication.
– ‘Engineering’: Non-project-related messages about events that af
fect the software
such as device files GSDML etc.
■ RECYCLE BIN
– Items that you have recently deleted from the ‘Plant’ or ‘Components
’ areas are
moved to the recycle bin.
– If necessary, you can restore deleted items.
Detected errors and warnings are shown here. In addition, you have a zoom function
here for graphical applications.
4.4.3 Create a new project
1. Start iCube Engineer.