Specification automation means the automatic generation of RTL design, verification, software, validation, and documentation files from executable specifications. That’s what we enable with our solutions at Agnisys. Specification automation begins with register automation. I mean that historically: registers were the first aspect of design that we tackled, and we were true pioneers of this technology. But it’s still true today: nearly everyone who takes advantage of our specification automation solutions starts with registers.
Registers: The Fundamental Element
As discussed in a recent post, registers are some of the most common and fundamental design elements. Literally everyone on a chip or intellectual property (IP) project can benefit from register automation. Your designs may contain hundreds of thousands of registers, and designing these by hand is clearly a painful task. Just typing in the register-transfer-level or RTL design code requires weeks or months of work. Like any hard coding, it’s highly susceptible to human error. Especially with many similarly named registers, typos are certain to occur.
