Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Innoveda | Subject: Regent Version 3.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 31 August 2001
Advanced tool programs
embedded system registers
Innoveda has unveiled a more powerful version of Regent, its wizard-like design and documentation tool for programmable register modules in embedded systems
Version 3.0 optimises the design process and implementation using a distributed model approach in which multiple register blocks are captured within one register table. Regent is an advanced tool designed specifically to handle the programming of SoC and embedded system registers. It provides a consistently synchronised flow to the various groups designing and testing hardware and software interface register blocks.
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Commenting on the new distributed model approach in Version 3, Rami Rachamim, director of marketing for Innoveda's System-Level Design group, said, "This approach enables designers to capture in one register table multiple functionally related, yet autonomous, programmable register blocks and distribute them anywhere in their system".
With its "always-in-sync" software macros, which are used in software drivers to reflect the latest changes in registers, Regent provides a comprehensive solution for the fast-growing area of hardware/software interface design and verification.
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"Using programmable registers to configure hardware devices is not new", Rachamim added.
"Recently, however, software-controlled hardware configurations have become a key way to shorten overall hardware design cycles in systems.
As a result, more and more programmable registers are required, and that's where Regent comes into play".
Regent adds design and documentation to systems and RTL methodology by generating synthesisable RTL from a structured register table.
It also automatically generates software macros that depict hardware register addresses, size and bit position, eliminating errors that can occur in a manual approach.
Designers simply include the latest C header file automatically generated by Regent.
Regent Version 3.0, available now, supports all Windows-based platforms in addition to Solaris and HP-UX.
Pricing starts at $15,000 in the USA.
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