# nsx board create

Create a custom board under <app>/boards/<name>/ that inherits an existing EVB descriptor. Generates board.yaml and a thin board.cmake.

## Usage

```text
nsx board create [-h] --from BOARD [--app-dir APP_DIR] [--force]
                        [--json]
                        name
```

## Arguments

| Option | Value | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| name | value | required | Name for the new custom board |

## Options

| Option | Value | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| --from BOARD | value | required | Parent EVB to inherit from (e.g. apollo510_evb) |
| --app-dir APP_DIR | value | optional | Application directory (defaults to the nearest app root) |
| --force | flag | optional | Overwrite an existing board directory |
| --json | flag | optional | Emit machine-readable JSON instead of human-readable text |

`-v/--verbose`, `-q/--quiet` are parsed by `nsx` itself, so they go before the command name, as `nsx -v board create`.