Installing Examples

You will be asked to select a template for new projects when working through the New SDx Project wizard. You can also load template projects from within an existing project, through the Xilinx > SDx Examples command.

The first time the SDx Examples dialog box, or the Template page of the New SDx Project wizard is displayed, it will be empty if the SDAccel examples have not been downloaded. The empty dialog box is shown in the following figure. To add Templates to a new project, you must download the SDAccel Examples.

Figure: SDAccel Examples - Empty

The left side of the dialog box shows SDAccel Examples and SDSoC Examples, and has a download command for each category. The right side of the dialog box shows the directory where the examples will be downloaded to, and shows the URL where the examples will be downloaded from.

Click the Download button next to the SDAccel Examples to download the examples and populate the dialog. The examples are downloaded as shown in the following figure.

Figure: SDx Examples - Populated

The command menu at the bottom left of the SDx Examples dialog box provides two commands to manage the repository of examples:
  • Refresh: Refreshes the list of downloaded examples to download any updates from the GitHub repository.
  • Reset: Deletes the downloaded examples from the .Xilinx folder.