MIX - Micronas Interconnect Expander
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File under: Electronic Design Automation (EDA) or Electronic System-Level Design (ESL)
MIX is a methodology and tool to generate hardware descriptions, low-level driver software, verification code and documentation out of a single source specification. In contrast to most ESL (electronic system level design) tools, this approach focuses on structural specification, like hierarchy, interconnect, I/Os and configuration registers instead of synthesizing a functional specification (though the user can always insert arbitrary HDL code). Due to automatic code generation, consistency between specification and design is guaranteed and error-prone manual transformations can be avoided.
A table-based specification format was chosen to enable efficient data entry and review. Lately, the Spirit consortiums IP-XACT input/output format for register specifications has been added. It is also possible to access the code generation functions through a Perl API which is useful where a table-based entry format contains too much redundancy due to its flat data representation.
Important files/dirs:
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-----Resources
Collection of examples, old documentation, user templates, ...
-----bin/
Perl programs
-----doc/
Documentation (esp. doc/MIX_UserManual.html and doc/MIX_DeveloperManual.html TiddlyWikis)
-----lib/
Perl library for MIX
-----mix
Default Mix executable -> uses module environment;
-----mix_1.pl
Pure Perl executable
-----mixlog.conf
Logger configuration file for MIX
-----mui/
MIX GUI, not maintained anymore
-----templates/
various templates for development
-----test/
testing stuff, needs updating