Design Decisions

A collection of notes to explain some of the design decisions to potential developers and advanced users

‘Pure’ Python

The peakrdl-python RAL was designed to have very limited dependencies on other packages once deployed, this includes the peakrdl-python packages itself, so the library classes are copied into the generated package.

It does need a few packages inorder to build it:

• systemrdl-compiler

• jinja2

Integer Data Types

All the APIs present memory, register and field entries as python integers. This abstracts, the complexity of byte ordering and reversed registers.