CrossStudio allows you to organize your collection of projects into a workspace or solution. We provide a number of project templates for popular evaluation and demonstration boards with the product which you can use as a springboard to start your application development. A project is typically organized into groups, where each group gathers together files that are related—for example, header files, source files, and documentation files can all have their own group in a project.

This section will take you through creating, compiling, and debugging a simple application using the build-in simulator to prepare you for starting your own projects using CrossStudio.

###### In this section

Creating a project
  Describes how to start a project, select your target processor, and other common options.
Managing files in a project
  Describes how to add existing and new files to a project and how to remove items from a project.
Setting project options
  Describes how to set options on project items and how project option inheritance works.
Building projects
  Describes how to build the project, correct compilation and linkage errors, and find out how big your applications are.
Exploring projects
  Describes how to use the Project Explorer, Symbol Browser, and Source Navigator to find out how much memory your project takes and navigate around the files that make up the project. It also describes the similarities and differences between the three windows.
Using the debugger
  Describes the debugger and how to find and fix problems at a high level when executing your application.
Low-level debugging
  Describes how to use debugger features to debug your program at the machine level by watching registers and tracing instructions.