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V3 Design with SystemC

System Design and Simulation with SystemC

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Objectives
  • Understand the benefits of system simulation with SystemC
  • Mastering the different levels of modeling
    • Transactional Models
    • Software models
    • Hardware models
    • Synthesizable models
  • System modeling:
    • UTF (UnTimed Functional model)
    • TF (Timed Functional model)
  • Hardware modeling:
    • BCA (Bus Cycle Accurate model)
    • PCA (Pin Cycle Accurate model)
This course is complemented by numerous exercises and describes SystemC version 2.2
Course material
  • A PC workstation per trainee group with:
    • Visual Studio 2005
    • SystemC-2.2
Prerequisites
  • Basic knowledge of C++ (see for example our L3 - C++ course)

First day
Reminders on C++
  • Object Oriented Programming
    • Classes and objects
    • Attributes
  • Methods and operators
    • Overloading
    • Constructors and Destructors
    • Virtual methods
    • References
    • Default parameters
  • Memory management
    • The new and delete operators
  • Name spaces
  • Standard input/output (Streams)
Advanced features of C++ needed by SystemC
  • Class and function templates
    • Template definition
    • Constraints
    • Automatic instantiation
    • Manual instantiation
  • Type conversions
    • Implicit conversions
    • User-defined conversions
    • Copy and initailisation operators
    • Up casts and down casts
  • Exceptions
Second day
Introduction to SystemC
  • The basics of SystemC
    • Language objectives
    • History
    • Advantages and disadvantages of SystemC
  • Transaction Level Modeling (TLM)
  • The SystemC design flow
    • Algorithmic model
    • TLM model
    • Hardware/software partitioning
    • Direct synthesis or HDL translation
    • Model simulation
  • The SystemC architecture
    • Communication channels
    • Structural elements
    • Data types
    • The simulation engine
Eléments de base du langage SystemC
  • Structural elements
    • Modules, Ports and Signals
    • Primitive Channels
  • Creating model structure
    • Instantiating Modules
    • Connecting ports
  • Processes and Time Management
    • Methods and Threads
    • Events
    • Static or dynamic sensitivity
    • Time and clocks
    • Dynamic processes
Third day
Simulation of a SystemC model
  • Starting and stopping the simulation
  • Model elaboration
    • Static elaboration phases
    • Dynamic elaboration phases
    • The event finder concept
    • Elaboration callbacks
  • The simulation phases
    • Event notifications
    • Waiting on events and triggers
    • Event queues
  • Debug techniques
    • Reporting and tracing
    • Error handling
    • Tracing hidden signals and local variables
Fourth day
Bus and Pin Accurate Models
  • Modeling busses
    • Interfaces and communication channels
    • Master and slave interfaces
    • Interface methods (blocking and non-blocking)
    • Using events with channels
    • Channels with dynamic sensitivity
  • Modeling multi-port busses
    • Port binding policies
  • Pin Accurate Models
    • Fully specified data types
    • Assignment and truncation
  • Logical types and vectors
    • Selecting bits and slices
    • Concatenating values
    • Resolving types
  • Integer and fixed point types
Modeling by refining models
  • Refining algorithms
    • Creating UnTimed Functional (UTF) models
    • Refining to Timed Functional (TF) models
    • Partitioning hardware and software
    • Adding timing annotations
  • Refinement policies
    • Refining structure
    • Refining data
    • Refining communications
  • Channel refinement
    • The adaptator concept
    • Building an adaptator
    • Creating a specialized event finder