Pinapa: an extraction tool for SystemC descriptions of systems-on-a-chip

  • Authors:
  • Matthieu Moy;Florence Maraninchi;Laurent Maillet-Contoz

  • Affiliations:
  • Verimag. Centre équation - 2, avenue de Vignate, 38610 GIÉRES --- France & STMicroelectronics, HPC, CROLLES --- France;Verimag. Centre équation - 2, avenue de Vignate, 38610 GIÉRES --- France;STMicroelectronics, HPC, CROLLES --- France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Embedded software
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

SystemC is becoming a de-facto standard for the description of complex systems-on-a-chip. It enables system-level descriptions of SoCs: the same language is used for the description of the architecture, software and hardware parts.A tool like Pinapa is compulsory to work on realistic SoCs designs for anything else than simulation: it is able to extract both architecture and behavior information from SystemC code, with very few limitations. Pinapa can be used as a front-end for various analysis tools, ranging from "superlint" to model-checking. It is open source and available from http://greensocs.sourceforge.net/pinapa/. There exists no equivalent tool for SystemC up to now.