
Hitachi Embedded Workshop User Manual
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1.
Overview
This chapter describes the fundamental concepts of the Hitachi Embedded Workshop. It is intended to give users
who are new to Windows extra help, filling in the details that are required by later chapters.
1.1
Workspaces, Projects and Files
Just as a word processor allows you to create and modify documents, the Hitachi Embedded Workshop allows
you to create and modify workspaces. A workspace can be thought of as a container of projects and, similarly, a
project can be though 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 illustrates this graphically.
PROJECT
FILE
WORKSPACE
Figure 1.1: Workspaces, Projects and Files
Workspaces allow you to group related projects together. For example, you may have an application that needs
to be built for different processors or you may be developing an application and library at the same time. 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, we need to add a project to a workspace and then add
files to that project before we can actually do anything.