
Hitachi Embedded Workshop User Manual
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Section 1 Overview
This section describes the fundamental concepts of the Hitachi Embedded Workshop (HEW) necessary to use
the simulator/debugger. It is intended to give users who are unfamiliar with the Windows
extra help, the details
that are required by subsequent sections.
1.1
Workspaces, Projects, and Files
Just as a word processor allows you to create and modify documents, the HEW allows you to create and modify
workspaces.
A workspace can be thought of as a container of projects. Similarly, a project can be thought of as a container of
project files. Thus, each workspace contains one or more projects and each project contains one or more files.
Figure 1.1 shows this configuration.
PROJECT
FILE
WORKSPACE
Figure 1.1 Workspaces, Projects, and Files
Workspaces allow you to group related projects together. This is useful when you have an application that needs
to be built for different processors, when you are developing an application and library at the same time, or in
other cases. Projects can also be linked hierarchically within a workspace, which means that when one project is
built all of its child projects are built first.
However, workspaces on their own are not very useful, first you need to add a project to a workspace and then
add files to that project before you can actually do anything.
1.2
Launching the HEW
To initiate the HEW, open the [Start] menu of Windows
, select [Programs], select [Hitachi Embedded
Workshop 2], and then select the shortcut of the HEW. The [Welcome!] dialog box shown in figure 1.2 will be
displayed by default.