A SystemC refinement methodology for embedded software

Author

Chevalier, Jérôme ; De Nanclas, Maxime ; Filion, Luc ; Benny, Olivier ; Rondonneau, Mathieu ; Bois, Guy ; Aboulhamid, El Mostapha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

23

Issue

2

fYear

2006

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

158

Abstract

This article presents a design environment that provides an interface for user-written SystemC modules that model application software to make calls to a real-time operating system (RTOS) kernel and cosimulate with user-written SystemC hardware modules. The environment also facilitates successive refinement through three abstraction layers for hardware-software codesign suitable for embedded-system design.

Keywords

application program interfaces; embedded systems; hardware-software codesign; operating systems (computers); RTOS kernel; SystemC refinement method; application software; embedded software; embedded-system design; hardware-software codesign; real-time operating system; user-written SystemC hardware modules; Application software; Embedded software; Embedded system; Hardware; Kernel; Operating systems; Programming; Real time systems; Space exploration; Yarn; Real-time and embedded systems; integration; modeling hardware/software interfaces; system architectures;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Design & Test of Computers, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7475

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MDT.2006.27

Filename

1613798