Model-driven SoC design via executable UML to SystemC

Author

Nguyen, Kathy Dang ; Sun, Zhenxin ; Thiagarajan, P.S. ; Wong, Weng-Fai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

459

Lastpage

468

Abstract

We present a system level description mechanism based on UML-notations from which one can automatically extract SystemC code. Our modelling 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, Rhapsody (2004). We then translate the internal representation of the design generated by Rhapsody into SystemC code. The extensions we have implemented using the stereotype feature of the Rhapsody tool pull up the communication infrastructure and timing features of SystemC to the UML-level. Consequently, we can describe executable platforms at the UML-level as well as translate UML-based application descriptions to SystemC level.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; circuit CAD; formal specification; integrated circuit design; system-on-chip; Rhapsody; SystemC; executable UML; model-driven SoC design; system level description; system specifications; Application software; Communication standards; Hardware; Object oriented modeling; Real time systems; Software engineering; Sun; System-level design; Timing; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2004. Proceedings. 25th IEEE International

ISSN

1052-8725

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2247-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REAL.2004.32

Filename

1381331