Compiling SpecC for simulation

Author

Zhu, Jianwen ; Gajski, Daniel D.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

62

Abstract

Systems-on-chip (SOC) design calls for the use of executable system design language (SLDL). SpecC is a C-based SLDL designed to embrace the IP-centric design methodology. In this paper, we present a SpecC-language-based approach for system level simulation of SOC. Pros and cons of this approach is compared against the existing library-based approaches. Furthermore, we discuss in detail the various design considerations for the SpecC simulation API as well as our reference implementation

Keywords

C language; application specific integrated circuits; hardware description languages; industrial property; integrated circuit design; logic CAD; program compilers; C-based SLDL; IP-centric design methodology; SpecC; design considerations; executable system design language; reference implementation; system level simulation; systems-on-chip design; Chip scale packaging; Computational modeling; Design methodology; Moore´s Law; Refining; Registers; Speech; System-level design; System-on-a-chip; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the ASP-DAC 2001. Asia and South Pacific

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6633-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASPDAC.2001.913281

Filename

913281