Register Model value change

[lopeztel]

I have recently modeled registers as simple unions to represent bitfields, for example:

typedef union
{
	struct
	{
		uint32_t ADDRESS:5;
		uint32_t RESERVED:26;
		uint32_t ENABLE:1;
	} b;
	uint32_t w;
} register_type;

which facilitates the access to either the complete word or a bitfield. 

The interesting part comes when I try to check if the register value has changed, is there a more elegant way of doing this than polling in if or while statements for each register's value? I need to do this for a lot of them so I was wondering if modeling this using sc_bv provides a built-in event I could use in a SC_METHOD sensitivity list?

example:

typedef union
{
	struct
	{
		sc_bv<5> ADDRESS;
		sc_bv<26> RESERVED;
		sc_bv<1> ENABLE;
	} b;
	uint32_t w;
} register_type;

and then do something like:

register_type Reg;
...
SC_METHOD(some_method);
sensitive << Reg.b.ENABLE;
...
some_method(){
...
}

Any pointers or ideas are greatly appreciated

[Bas Arts]

The freely available SCML library from Synopsys provides a way to describe registers with optional callback functions that will trigger when a register read or write occurs.