Getting Started with Origen

Understanding Blocks

A “block” contains all of the Origen infrastructure to model and control a specific piece of silicon. Blocks can instantiate other blocks as sub-blocks, and therefore it is common to have a block that represents the top-level device, and then other blocks to represent the individual IPs that it contains.

├── app/    
    ├── blocks/        
        ├── dut/          
            ├── derivatives/        
            │   ├── falcon/  
            │   │   ├── derivatives/       
            │   │   ├── attributes.rb
            │   │   ├── controller.rb
            │   │   ├── model.rb
            │   │   ├── parameters.rb
            │   │   ├── pins.rb
            │   │   ├── registers.rb    
            │   │   ├── sub_blocks.rb    
            │   │   └── timesets.rb
            │   └── eagle/
            │       ├── derivatives/              
            │       ├── attributes.rb
            │       ├── controller.rb
            │       ├── model.rb
            │       ├── parameters.rb
            │       ├── pins.rb
            │       ├── registers.rb    
            │       ├── sub_blocks.rb    
            │       └── timesets.rb
            ├── attributes.rb
            ├── controller.rb
            ├── model.rb
            ├── parameters.rb
            ├── pins.rb
            ├── registers.rb    
            ├── sub_blocks.rb    
            └── timesets.rb