The easiest way to describe the operation of the IDE is to give an example that creates a simple application.
Creating a project
By right-clicking the blank space anywhere within the source view you can bring up a menu that includes a Create Project option.
Selecting this brings up the following dialog:
Provide the name of your project and click Finish to create a minimal project which appears in the source view.
At the moment there are only three components: root, Connections, and Wires.
Root is the first processor in your application; every Diamond application needs a root processor, so the IDE has created one for you. The type of root is the currently-selected default processor type.
Connections is a place where you can organise the channels connecting your tasks. We shall come back to this once we have created several tasks.
Finally, Wires is a place where you can specify the communication links connecting your processors. Again, this becomes more interesting later.
Double-click root and the following appears in the edit area:
You can see that the processor has been created with type SMT362; this was the default type at the time the example was created. You can change the type of root by clicking Select and choosing a new type from the list of available types that is presented.