User Microprocessor software environment

If you choose to write software for the User Microprocessor on the HLM-0503-100P modules, you can use the free Microchip MPLAB IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and C compiler. This provides you with an additional alternative method of communicating with your logic, which is complementary to the use of the Data Access API

The User Microprocessor is interfaced to the FPGA and the two can communicate, so you can read and write data to your user circuit via the User Microprocessor USB from a PC. You can arrange the communications in such a way that the user circuit operation is not paused during data access, as occurs when the Data Access API is used with the Monitor Microprocessor USB port.

Working demonstration software is provided which you can use as a template. No knowledge of low level USB operation is required, only calls to the library provided.