Development, programming, and debugging environment

A processing system having a processor comprising:

• a system interface to receive to receive an indication to initiate configuration of a programmable system;
• and
• a processing device coupled to the system interface and associated with an integrated development environment, responsive to the indication, to translate a hardware description code into one or more configuration files specific to the programmable system, the hardware description code to describe circuitry in the programmable system and the one or more configuration files to configure a plurality of programmable blocks in the programmable system to implement the circuitry described in the hardware description code, wherein to translate the hardware description code into the one or more configuration files, the processing device to netlist the hardware description code into a representation of the circuitry, reduce the netlisted hardware description code into a reduced hardware description code, map the reduced hardware description code to specific programmable hardware components in the programmable system, and analyze the mapped hardware description code to determine a placement and routing of the circuitry implemented by the programmable system, generate program code for a microcontroller of the programmable system based, at least in part, on the hardware description code, wherein to generate the program code, the processing device to generate an interface to control how the microcontroller communicates with the circuitry, and configure the programmable system to implement the circuitry according to the configuration files and the program code.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions configured to cause a processing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, by the processing device associated with an integrated development environment, an indication to initiate configuration of a programmable system;
• and
• in response to receiving the indication to initiate configuration:
• translating a hardware description code into one or more configuration files specific to the programmable system, the hardware description code to describe circuitry in the programmable system and the one or more configuration files to configure a plurality of programmable blocks in the programmable system to implement the circuitry described in the hardware description code, wherein translating the hardware description code into the one or more configuration files comprises:
• netlisting the hardware description code into a representation of the circuitry;
• reducing the netlisted hardware description code into a reduced hardware description code;
• mapping the reduced hardware description code to specific programmable hardware components in the programmable system;
• and
• analyzing the mapped hardware description code to determine a placement and routing of the circuitry implemented by the programmable system;
• generating program code for a microcontroller of the programmable system based, at least in part, on the hardware description code, wherein generating the program code comprises generating an interface to control how the microcontroller communicates with the circuitry;
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• configuring the programmable system to implement the circuitry according to the configuration files and the program code.