Exporting hardware specification in XPS

To export the hardware specification required for SDK, do the following in Xilinx® Platform Studio (XPS):

In XPS, Click Project > Export Hardware Design to SDK.
In the Export to SDK/Launch SDK dialog box, you can choose to select the Include bitstream and BMM file check box.
When you select this option, XPS exports hardware platform information, including a bitstream .bit file containing your hardware design for download to the board and block memory map (BMM) file used to translate data to fit into block RAMs. The bitstream is generated by running the ISE implementation tools, which might take few minutes to many hours depending on the complexity of your design.
Note: You can export without selecting this option, if the hardware platform information exists and bitstream generation is not required.
In the Directory location for hardware description files field, specify the directory into which XPS will place the exported files.
Click Export Only to generate hardware platform information to be used by SDK when developing software applications, or click Export & Launch SDK to generate the platform information and launch SDK.