Paying it Forward: Documenting your Open Hardware Module
summary
lxsocdoc embeds register and protocol metadata in Python/LiteX HDL so a human- and machine-readable reference manual is generated at build time rather than handwritten later. it documents CSR fields and values, produces register schematics and hyperlinks, emits SVD files to drive SVD to Rust safe accessors, and uses waveDrom for protocol diagrams; used on Fomu and Betrusted to avoid header drift and mismatches that plague large reference manuals (IMX6 style manuals run to ~6,000 pages).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 1:20About Me
- 2:33Reference Manuals
- 5:20Enterprise Documentation
- 6:21Motivation
- 13:05Generating a Manual
- 13:43Interrupts
- 15:36Protocol Documentation
- 16:00SVD: Documentation for Machines
- 17:20Renode: Fancy Register Logging
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