A new methodology for hardware design based on UML for SystemC

摘要

This paper proposes a new methodology for hardware design. Our methodology describes a hardware system design process including modeling using UML diagrams and its extensions for SystemC. The UML profile captures both the structural and the behavioral features of the SystemC language, and allows high level modeling of system-on-a-chip. Our modeling framework is based on a restricted set of UML diagram types and some standard extensions influenced by the communication infrastructure of SystemC. The system specifications are developed using the UML-compatible tool, Enterprise Architecture. We intend to build a smooth hardware design flow in which visualization, reusing, integration; documentation, design analysis and automatic code generation of SystemC code can be done more precisely.