Systematic Transaction Level Modeling of Embedded Systems with SystemC

摘要

This paper gives an overview of a transaction level modeling (TLM) designflow for straightforward embedded system design with SystemC. The goal is tosystematically develop both application-specific HW and SW components of anembedded system using the TLM approach, thus allowing for fast communicationarchitecture exploration, rapid prototyping and early embedded SW development.To this end, we specify the lightweight transaction-based communicationprotocol SHIP and present a methodology for automatic mapping of thecommunication part of a system to a given architecture, including HW/SWinterfaces.