Kactus2 is a toolset for IP-XACT based SoC design and provides packaging, integration and configuration of HW and SW components, plus register design and HDL import and generation.

The source code is hosted at https://github.com/kactus2/kactus2dev.

An example IP library is available at https://github.com/kactus2/ipxactexamplelib

Video tutorials are available at https://www.youtube.com/user/Kactus2Tutorial

Issue tracker is available at https://github.com/kactus2/kactus2dev/issues

For publications, kindly use this reference:
http://joss.theoj.org/papers/73e33d6850d24f0d6aad0d5f38937f83

Contributors:
Antti Kamppi, Joni-Matti Määttä, Lauri Matilainen, Timo D. Hämäläinen, Mikko Teuho, Juho Järvinen, Esko Pekkarinen, Janne Virtanen, Anton Hagqvist, Vasilii Feshchenko

Features

  • Import your existing IPs as IP-XACT components
  • Create new IP-XACT components and generate their HDL module headers
  • Reuse IP-XACT files from any standard compatible vendor
  • Reuse the IPs in your designs and connect them with wires and buses
  • Create multilevel hierarchies, where a design has multiple sub-designs
  • Configure component instances in designs, including the sub-designs
  • Use generator plugins to create HDL with wiring and parameterization
  • Use memory designer to preview memory maps and address spaces in your hierarchy
  • Package software to IP-XACT components and map them to hardware
  • Generate makefiles that build executables with rules defined in IP-XACT components

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • Very interesting stuff. Do you handle models that were written in SystemC?
    Reply from Kactus2
    Posted 2019-08-15
    Thank you, jchap2k. We are introducing transactional elements bit-by-bit and the module sources can be included in file sets as any other implementation files. SystemC file import and generation are postponed until later.
  • Good work:)
    3 users found this review helpful.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, Windows

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Engineering, Information Technology, Science/Research

User Interface

Qt

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Software

Registered

2011-10-03