Overview

This document provides basic post-installation information intended to help an OpenCPI user get started on OpenCPI development. It also contains general configuration information that needs to be referenced over time that does not fall into the other more specific reference documents.

This document first reviews the concepts and terminology needed to understand the OpenCPI environment and documentation. Later sections address specific topics for using OpenCPI over time, such as configuration files and environment variables, and guidance for using various tools external to OpenCPI.

This document assumes that you have access to one of the OpenCPI-supported development systems that has been installed and initially configured as an OpenCPI development host and on which at least an OpenCPI-supported FPGA simulator platform has been set up. This prerequisite installation is based on the OpenCPI Installation Guide.