SystemC Methodologies and Applications

SystemC has received a wide acceptance by users and tool vendors as the next generation system description language in order to deal with higher levels of abstraction for complex SoC designs. SystemC Methodologies and Applications gives a comprehensive survey on the state of the art of SystemC in industry and research. Organised into 11 self-contained chapters, selected SystemC experts present their approaches in the domains of

-modelling,
-analysis,
-synthesis.

Their contributions range from mixed signal and discrete system to embedded software. The chapters give a broad overview of recent advances in SystemC methodologies and applications and are mainly based on presentations given at the European SystemC User Group meetings.

A SystemC Based System On Chip Modelling and Design Methodology.- Using Transactional Level Models in a SoC Design Flow.- Refining a High Level SystemC Model.- An ASM Based SystemC Simulation Semantics.- SystemC as a Complete Design and Validation Environment.- System Level Performance Estimation of Multi-Processing, Multi-Threading SoC Architectures for Networking Applications.- SVE: A methodology for the Design of Protocol Dominated Digital Systems.- Object Oriented Hardware Design and Synthesis Based on SystemC 2.0.- Embedded Software Generation from SystemC for Platform Based Design.- SystemC-AMS: Rationales, State of the Art, and Examples.- Modeling and Refinement of Mixed-Signal Systems with SystemC.