SystemRDL Alliance Benefits for Designers
The SystemRDL Alliance offers significant benefits to SoC designs. Configuration space registers (CSR's) are used store key parameters, often numbering in the thousands, that define the operation of an IP block or chip. The availability of SystemRDL-enabled IP allows system architects, sofware developers, hardware designers, and verification engineers to use a common computer-readable format for CSR's and deploy a correct-by construction flow for concurrent SoC development.
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Control registers found in an IP or chip design defines the software interface to the chip and usually represents the largest portion of the chip specification or programmers guide. Vendors delivering RDL with their IP products will give their customers instant access to customizable views of registers for internal hardware design, software development and documentation. This eliminates the need to manually redevelop register views to conform to internal requirements from various development teams.
Because SoC developers typically integrate multiple IP cores from multiple vendors, the availability of consistent, high-quality register views speeds integration of third-party IP, increases design efficiency and reduces the overall cost of IP deployment.
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