Systemc Kernel Extensions for Heterogeneous System Modeling

by Patel, Hiren; Shukla, Sandeep Kumar

• ISBN13: 9781441954725
• ISBN10: 1441954724
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-04
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

SystemC Kernel Extensions for Heterogeneous System Modeling is a result of an almost two year endeavour on our part to understand how SystemC can be made useful for system level modeling at higher levels of abstraction. Making it a truly heterogeneous modeling language and platform, for hardware/software co-design as well as complex embedded hardware designs has been our focus in the work reported in this book.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. v
List of Figures	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxxi
Introduction	p. 1
Motivation	p. 1
System Level Design Languages and Frameworks	p. 2
Our Approach to Heterogeneous Modeling in SystemC	p. 8
Main Contributions of this Book	p. 10
Background Material	p. 13
System Level Modeling and Simulation Methods	p. 13
Models of Computation and Heterogeneous Modeling at System Level	p. 14
Ptolemy II: A Heterogeneous Modeling and Simulation Framework	p. 15
SystemC: Language and Framework	p. 19
Implemented Models of Computation	p. 21
SystemC Discrete-Event Kernel	p. 31
DE Simulation Semantics	p. 31
Implementation Specifics	p. 33
Discrete-Event Simulation Kernel	p. 34
Example: DE Kernel	p. 37
Few Words About Implementation Class Hierarchy	p. 45
MoC Specific Ports and Channels	p. 48
Integration of Kernels	p. 53
Synchronous Data Flow Kernel in SystemC	p. 55
SDF MoC	p. 55
SDF Data Structure	p. 57
Scheduling of SDF	p. 61
SDF Modeling Guidelines	p. 72
SDF Kernel in SystemC	p. 79
SDF Specific Examples	p. 88
Pure SDF Examples	p. 89
Communicating Sequential Processes Kernel in SystemC	p. 93
Implementation Details	p. 95
CSP Scheduling and Simulation	p. 106
Example of CSP Model in SystemC	p. 109
Modeling Guidelines for CSP Models in SystemC	p. 116
Example of Producer/Consumer	p. 117
Integrating CSP & DE kernels	p. 119
Finite State Machine Kernel in SystemC	p. 125
Implementation Details	p. 127
Example of Traffic Light Controller Model using FSM Kernel in SystemC	p. 129
SystemC Kernel Application Protocol Interface (API)	p. 133
System Level Design Languages and Frameworks	p. 133
Heterogeneous Examples	p. 139
Model using SDF kernel	p. 139
Model using CSP and FSM kernels	p. 142
Model using FSM, SDF and DE kernels	p. 146
Model using CSP, FSM, SDF and DE Kernels	p. 147
Epilogue	p. 151
References	p. 155
Appendices	p. 160
QuickThreads in SystemC	p. 161
QuickThreads	p. 161
QuickThread Client package in SystemC	p. 162
Autoconf and Automake	p. 171
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