Utilizes cortex-debug to view arbitrary SVD files independent of the debugged program. The files are processed (derivedFrom, nested clusters, ...) by the cortex-debug plugin.
./viewer.sh <path_to_svd_file>During the development of SVDSuite, the results were compared with other SVD parsers, as the standard is not always clear and sometimes insufficiently documented. The parser from cortex-debug turned out to be very powerful, as it has more features (e.g. forward referencing for derivedFrom) than ARM's reference parser svdconv.
However, cortex-debug and it's extracted extension Peripheral Viewer both only show information about SVD files while debugging a program.
The shell script in this repository is a wrapper for cortex-debug. It downloads QEMU, installs the cortex-debug plugin in VS Code and modifies VS Code's launch.json for the appropriate SVD path. Afterwards it executes VS Code and QEMU with a dummy binary to allow a debugging session.