基于SystemC的嵌入式系统软硬件协同设计

Hardware/Software Co-design of Embedded System Using SystemC Modeling Platform

提出了一种基于SystemC的嵌入式系统软硬件协同设计方法。SystemC是OSCI(OpenSystemCIni tiative)组织制定和维护的一种开放源代码的C + +建模平台 ,提供支持硬件建模和仿真的C + +类库及相应的仿真内核。通过SystemC的支持 ,该方法在整个嵌入式系统设计流程内使用C + +语言来统一描述硬件和软件 ,实现软硬件的协同设计和仿真。该方法同传统的设计方法相比更加灵活和有效。

In this paper a SystemC based hardware/software co-design methodology for embedded system is presented. By adopting SystemC, the open C++ modeling platform promoted by the Open SystemC Initiative which provides a well-defined set of C++ classes to accurately describe hardware, C++ can be chosen to describe both hardware and software throughout the whole design flow to support hardware/software co-design. Our methodology supports the efficient mapping of C++ functional descriptions directly into hardware and software and provides great flexibility and enables faster simulation compared to existing methodologies.