Towards a synthesis semantics for systemC channels

  • Authors:
  • Kim Grüttner;Henning Kleen;Frank Oppenheimer;Achim Rettberg;Wolfgang Nebel

  • Affiliations:
  • OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg, Germany;OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg, Germany;OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg, Germany;Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany;Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CODES/ISSS '10 Proceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a synthesis semantics for systemCTM channels, which contribute to a clear separation between computation (algorithm) and communication, whereas communication related parts are modelled through either primitive or hierarchical channels. We present a synthesisable replacement for systemC primitive channels that allows deterministic access scheduling and user-constrained refinement for HW/HW and HW/SW communication. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach through synthesis and exploration of a communication intensive packet switch design under consideration of different configurations and communication refinements