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
- 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
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