LusSy: a toolbox for the analysis of systems-on-a-chip at the transactional level

Author

Moy, M. ; Maraninchi, F. ; Maillet-Contoz, L.

Author_Institution

STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France

fYear

2005

fDate

7-9 June 2005

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

35

Abstract

We describe a toolbox for the analysis of systems-on-a-chip described in SystemC at the transactional level. The tools are able to extract information from SystemC code, and to build a set of parallel automata that capture the semantics of a SystemC design, including the transaction-level specific constructs. As far as we know, this provides the first executable formal semantics of SystemC. Being implemented as a traditional compiler front-end, it is able to deal with general SystemC designs. The intermediate representation is now connected to existing formal verification tools via appropriate encodings. The toolbox is open and other tools will be used in the future.

Keywords

formal verification; program compilers; programming language semantics; system-on-chip; systems analysis; LusSy; SystemC code; SystemC design; SystemC formal semantics; compiler front-end; formal verification tool; information extraction; parallel automata; semantics capturing; systems-on-a-chip; transactional level; Automata; Chip scale packaging; Data mining; Embedded software; Encoding; Formal verification; Productivity; Protocols; Registers; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Application of Concurrency to System Design, 2005. ACSD 2005. Fifth International Conference on

ISSN

1550-4808

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2363-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSD.2005.23

Filename

1508127