Eclipse is a heavily used IDE for many languages and documentation and support can be found all over the web. The plugin for the hardware environment was designed to follow the same conventions as the rest of eclipse so in general global things for eclipse should work properly for the hardware plugin as well. This manual is also embedded in the help of eclipse when the plugin is installed.

The table of contents section is here for a starting point. Getting a project started is actually pretty straightforward, but for those who want to jump right into things and start looking at the features, the example design is the right place to start.