When you open a project in the Vitis IDE, the workspace is arranged in a series of different views and editors, also known as a perspective in the Eclipse-based IDE. The tool opens with the Design perspective shown in the following figure.
Some key views and editors in the default perspective include:
- Explorer view
- Displays a file-oriented tree view of the project folders and their associated source files, plus the build files, and reports generated by the tool. You can use this to explore your project file hierarchy.
- Assistant view
- Provides a central location to view and manage the projects of the workspace, and the build and run configurations of the project. You can interact with the various project settings and reports of the different configurations. From this view, you can build and run your Vitis IDE application projects, and launch the Vitis analyzer to view reports and performance data as explained in Using the Vitis Analyzer.
- Project Editor view
- Displays the current project, the target platform, the active build configuration, and specified hardware functions; allows you to directly edit project settings.
- Console view
- Presents multiple views including the command console, design guidance, project properties, logs, and terminal views.
The Vitis IDE includes several predefined perspectives, such as the Vitis IDE perspective, the Debug perspective, and the Performance Analysis perspective. To quickly switch between perspectives, click the perspective name in the upper right of the Vitis IDE.
You can arrange views to suit your needs by dragging and dropping them into new locations in the IDE, and the arrangement of views is saved in the current perspective. You can close windows by selecting the Close (X) button on the View tab. You can open new windows by using the command and selecting a specific view.
To restore a perspective to the default arrangement of views, make the perspective active and select .
To open different perspectives, select .