This organization hosts free and open-source tools for working with the IP-XACT standard, following the latest published version (IEEE 1685-2022).
This is an independent open-source community and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc.
XactFlow is the main project of this organization: a Python-based application for reading, manipulating, and generating IP-XACT descriptions. It is inspired by how PeakRDL works for SystemRDL and aims to provide a similar, open-source toolchain for the IP-XACT ecosystem.
At its core, XactFlow will be built around an ipxact-compiler, a library that reads IP-XACT XML files and translates them into a structured Python object model. The rest of the ecosystem (importers, exporters, and integrations) will build on top of that shared object model instead of each tool re-parsing IP-XACT XML on its own.
On top of the compiler, we plan to grow a collection of standalone importer and exporter applications: generating IP-XACT components from SV source paired with a metadata file, simplifying the creation of an IP-XACT design file through a new way of describing it, and exporting HTML documentation or SV files from an IP-XACT design file.
For the initial phase, XactFlow will focus on the following IP-XACT object types:
- Component descriptions
- Design descriptions
- Bus related definitions (bus definitions / abstraction definitions)
Support for additional IP-XACT object types (catalogs, generators, etc.) may follow once this core is solid.
Unless otherwise noted, projects in this organization are released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL-3.0).
