SystemC Kernel Extensions For Heterogenous System Modeling

by Patel, Hiren D.; Shukla, Sandeep K.

• ISBN13: 9781402080876
• ISBN10: 1402080875
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

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	v
List of Figures	xi
List of Tables	xiii
Foreword	xv
Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxxi
1. INTRODUCTION	1	(12)
1 Motivation	1	(1)
2 System Level Design Languages and Frameworks	2	(6)
3 Our Approach to Heterogeneous Modeling in SystemC	8	(2)
4 Main Contributions of this Book	10	(3)
2. BACKGROUND MATERIAL	13	(18)
1 System Level Modeling and Simulation Methods	13	(1)
2 Models of Computation and Heterogeneous Modeling at System Level	14	(1)
3 Ptolemy II: A Heterogeneous Modeling and Simulation Framework	15	(4)
4 SystemC: Language and Framework	19	(2)
5 Implemented Models of Computation	21	(10)
3. SYSTEMC DISCRETE-EVENT KERNEL	31	(14)
1 DE Simulation Semantics	31	(2)
2 Implementation Specifics	33	(1)
3 Discrete-Event Simulation Kernel	34	(3)
4 Example: DE Kernel	37	(8)
4. FEW WORDS ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION CLASS HIERARCHY	45	(10)
1 MoC Specific Ports and Channels	48	(5)
2 Integration of Kernels	53	(2)
5. SYNCHRONOUS DATA FLOW KERNEL IN SYSTEMC	55	(38)
1 SDF MoC	55	(2)
2 SDF Data Structure	57	(4)
3 Scheduling of SDF	61	(11)
4 SDF Modeling Guidelines	72	(7)
5 SDF Kernel in SystemC	79	(9)
6 SDF Specific Examples	88	(1)
7 Pure SDF Examples	89	(4)
6. COMMUNICATING SEQUENTIAL PROCESSES KERNEL IN SYSTEMC	93	(32)
1 Implementation Details	95	(11)
2 CSP Scheduling and Simulation	106	(3)
3 Example of CSP Model in SystemC	109	(7)
4 Modeling Guidelines for CSP Models in SystemC	116	(1)
5 Example of Producer/Consumer	117	(2)
6 Integrating CSP & DE kernels	119	(6)
7. FINITE STATE MACHINE KERNEL IN SYSTEMC	125	(8)
1 Implementation Details	127	(2)
2 Example of Traffic Light Controller Model using FSM Kernel in SystemC	129	(4)
8. SYSTEMC KERNEL APPLICATION PROTOCOL INTERFACE (API)	133	(6)
1 System Level Design Languages and Frameworks	133	(6)
9. HETEROGENEOUS EXAMPLES	139	(12)
1 Model using SDF kernel	139	(3)
2 Model using CSP and FSM kernels	142	(4)
3 Model using FSM, SDF and DE kernels	146	(1)
4 Model using CSP, FSM, SDF and DE kernels	147	(4)
10. EPILOGUE	151	(4)
References	155	(5)
Appendices	160
A QuickThreads in SystemC	161	(10)
1 QuickThreads	161	(1)
2 QuickThread Client package in SystemC	162	(9)
B Autoconf and Autorrrake	171