Title :
SystemC-A modelling of mixed-technology systems with distributed behaviour
Author :
Chenxu Zhao ; Kazmierski, Tom J.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
This paper presents an approach to modelling distributed systems described by Partial Differential Equa tions(PDEs) in SystemC-A. Such modeling approach is quite important because of the modeling difficulties for the mixed physical domain systems where complex digital and analogue electronics interfaces with vital distributed physical effects. As current SystemC-A does not support PDEs modeling, the proposed approach is based on discretization of PDEs to a set of Ordinary Differential and Algebraic Equations(ODAEs) which can be solved. Future work will extend the SystemC-A syntax to provide full PDE support. Distributed lossy microstrip and cantilever beam are used to validate the method and are described in the case studies.
Keywords :
C language; algebra; beams (structures); cantilevers; distributed processing; partial differential equations; SystemC-A modelling; algebraic equations; cantilever beam; distributed behaviour; distributed lossy microstrip; distributed system modelling; mixed physical domain systems; mixed-technology systems; ordinary differential equations; partial differential equations;
Conference_Titel :
Specification & Design Languages (FDL 2010), 2010 Forum on
Conference_Location :
Southampton
DOI :
10.1049/ic.2010.0137