Stepwise SystemC/TLM-2 models structuring and optimizations

Sfar, Sana; Tourki, Rached; Bennour, Imed Eddine

doi:10.1109/idt.2016.7843040

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“…For ESL design, electronic design automation (EDA) tools have been developed for the specification, design, verification, implementation, and test of electronic systems. To address challenges of ESL tasks, transaction-level modeling (TLM) has emerged as an efficient methodology with an acceptable simulation speed and modeling accuracy compared to register transfer level (RTL) [1]. Of all system-level description languages, SystemC [2] seems to be the most appropriate to meet the TLM requirements.…”

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A Service-Oriented Component-Based Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration Modeling Targeting SystemC/TLM

Allem

Bourennane

Khelfaoui

2021

International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

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To deal with the complex design issues of Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (DRSoCs), it is extremely relevant to raise the abstraction level in which models are expressed. A high abstraction level allows great flexibility and reusability while bypassing low-level implementation details. In this context, model-driven engineering (MDE) provides support to build and transform precise and structured models for a particular purpose at different levels of abstraction. Indeed, high-level models are successively refined to low-level models until reaching the executable ones. Thus, this paper presents an MDE-based framework for DRSoCs design enabling the transformation of UML/MARTE specifications to SystemC/TLM implementation. To achieve a high degree of expressiveness for modeling dynamic reconfiguration, we use a suitable software engineering approach based on service-oriented component architecture. Since MARTE does not cover the common features of dynamic reconfiguration domain and service orientation concepts, new stereotypes are created by refinement to add missing capabilities to the profile. Likewise, SystemC does not provide native support for dynamic reconfiguration, thus leading us to adopt a design pattern based solution for DRSoCs implementation in compliance with standards. The proposed framework is validated through a reconfigurable active 3-way crossover case study in which we demonstrate the practicability of the approach by gradual model transformations with reduced implementation effort and significant design productivity gain.

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A Service-Oriented Component-Based Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration Modeling Targeting SystemC/TLM

Allem

Bourennane

Khelfaoui

2021

International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

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“…With our experience in developing TL models summarized in [11] we can make two essential remarks. On one hand, we note that the number of line codes easily reaches a few tens of thousands even if the TL model contains only one processor, a memory module and two or three hardware modules interconnected with shared bus.…”

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TLM-2 base protocol analysis for model-driven design

Sfar

Tourki

Bennour

2017

2017 International Conference on Engineering &Amp; MIS (ICEMIS)

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Abstract-The system-on-chip design cost is not only dependent on implementation and manufacturing techniques, but also on the used methodologies and design tools. In recent years, transaction level modelling (TLM) and more specifically the SystemC TLM-2 library has become the standard in writing a system-level specification. Even though TLM-2 based models are more abstract than registry-level ones, they are very challenging to develop. They are often written manually and from scratch. In this paper, we expose a more elaborate and modular structure of transaction level models based on more predictable semantics. This work will be our first stone of the building of a model-driven design, a methodology that has proven itself in software engineering.

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Stepwise SystemC/TLM-2 models structuring and optimizations

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A Service-Oriented Component-Based Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration Modeling Targeting SystemC/TLM

A Service-Oriented Component-Based Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration Modeling Targeting SystemC/TLM

TLM-2 base protocol analysis for model-driven design

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