Nios® II Software Developer Handbook

ID 683525
Date 8/28/2023
Public
Document Table of Contents

2.5.1.1. Nios® II SBT for Eclipse

The Nios® II SBT for Eclipse is a thin GUI layer that runs the Nios® II SBT utilities and scripts behind the scenes, presenting a unified development environment. The SBT for Eclipse provides a consistent development platform that works for all Nios® II processor systems. You can accomplish all software development tasks within Eclipse, including creating, editing, building, running, debugging, and profiling programs.

The Nios® II SBT for Eclipse is based on the popular Eclipse framework and the Eclipse C/C++ development toolkit (CDT) plugins. The Nios® II SBT creates your project makefiles for you, and Eclipse provides extensive capabilities for interactive debugging and management of source files.

The SBT for Eclipse also allows you to import and debug projects you created in the Nios® II Command Shell.