Create a first ISA category or instruction

Add a first category or instruction declaration to an empty CX source in Cloud and save the file in your project.

Create a first category or instruction declaration in a CX source, then save it in your project.

These steps apply to Cloud. Open a project in Digital Design Studio with permission to edit its CX source. Each authoring choice below starts with an empty source.

Open an empty CX source

  1. In Flow Navigator, open ISA Design > Instruction Database.

  2. Use the CX document selector in the ISA panel to choose an empty, writable .cx file. In a project with no CX files, the first edit starts main.cx.

Create a first category

  1. Starting with an empty source, choose Add category.

  2. Enter arithmetic in Category ID and Arithmetic in Display name. Leave Parent category set to Top level.

  3. Choose Apply category to CX. The category declaration is added to the source.

Create a first instruction declaration

  1. Starting with an empty source, choose New instruction.

  2. In Instruction declaration, enter one complete CX instruction declaration, including its name, uses format and body.

  3. Choose Apply to CX to add the declaration to the source.

Save the CX source

  1. After applying either authoring choice, open Flow Navigator > ISA Design > ISA Authoring to review the source in Outline.

  2. Choose Save ISA source at the bottom of the ISA panel to save the CX file in the project workspace.

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