Visualization of SystemC Designs

The open source library SystemC aids the composition of system level designs. The library offers a wide variety of datatypes and a simulation kernel. Both components help to describe VLSI designs very close to the RT level or at the more abstract system level. Since SystemC is based on C++, it allows the integration of several techniques into the model which do not contribute to the model itself, e.g. for verification, system exploration or debugging. But especially for debugging it is helpful to hide all these additional elements. This work addresses the problem of SystemC visualization for debugging backends. Besides displaying a system´s behavior and its structure, our approach also excludes non-relevant data which is part of the system description, but does not define its behavior or its structure.