Platform Studio

Using XMD

You can run the Xilinx® Microprocessor Debugger (XMD) from a command line and use it exclusively for debugging. Alternately, XMD can serve as a link between the GNU debug option and your target board.

To open XMD from Xilinx® Platform Studio (XPS), click Debug > Launch XMD.

The first time you open XMD, you are prompted to set the XMD options, and the XMD Debug Options dialog box opens automatically. Select the settings.

If you want to change the debug option setting later, you can do so by clicking Debug > XMD Target Options.

After you have set the debug options, the XMD terminal command-line window opens. On Startup, XMD does the following:

If an XMD Tcl script is specified, XMD executes the script and quits.

Otherwise, XMD is started in an interactive mode. In this case, XMD does the following:

Sources the ${HOME}/.xmdrc file. The configuration file can be used to form custom Tcl commands using XMD commands.
Opens the XMD Socket server, if the -ipcport option is given.
Loads system Xilinx® Microprocessor Project (XMP) file, if the -xmp option is given.
Uses Connect option file to connect to processor target, if the -opt option is given.
If –nx option is not specified, sources the xmd.ini file, if present in the directory.

The XMD% prompt is displayed. From the Tcl prompt, you can use XMD commands for debugging.

For a list of XMD commands, refer to the "Xilinx Microprocessor Debugger (XMD)" chapter of the Embedded System Tools Reference Manual.