Advanced semiconductor designs have many components, including multi-core architectures, programmable peripherals, and purpose-built accelerators. These design elements require a pathway for embedded system software to communicate with them. This is the hardware/software interface (HSI) and it forms the foundation for the entire design project. There are many activities that need information about the HSI. These activities include device drivers and firmware, hardware design and verification, technical documentation, system diagnostics and application software. All of them need accurate, up-to-date HSI information in many different and specialized formats. A lack of unified, up-to-date information results in poor collaboration and an increased opportunity for design errors. This can lead to costly last-minute fixes or even design re-spins, impacting team productivity and compromising, the end quality of the SoC.

Arteris addresses these challenges with Magillem Registers. Magillem Registers is tool for a better HSI solution with a scalable infrastructure that promotes a rapid, highly iterative design environment to specify, document, implement, and verify address maps for complex SoCs and FPGAs.

During this tutorial, we will explain how Magillem Registers has the features and flexibility to speed development of the largest and most complex designs.