A Generic RTOS Model for Real-time Systems Simulation with SystemC
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 3
Embedded software generation from system level design languages
Proceedings of the 2004 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Systemic Embedded Software Generation from SystemC
DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
A SystemC Refinement Methodology for Embedded Software
IEEE Design & Test
GreenBus: a generic interconnect fabric for transaction level modelling
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
Automatic generation of transaction level models for rapid design space exploration
CODES+ISSS '06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Transaction-Level Modeling with Systemc: Tlm Concepts and Applications for Embedded Systems
Transaction-Level Modeling with Systemc: Tlm Concepts and Applications for Embedded Systems
Generation of embedded hardware/software from systemC
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
ASP-DAC '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Componentizing hardware/software interface design
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
A comprehensive integration infrastructure for embedded system design
Microprocessors & Microsystems
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Early embedded SW development with transaction-level models has been broadly promoted to improve SoC design productivity. But the proposed APIs only provide low-level read/write operations via a TLM interconnect. SW developers have to implement platform-specific communication procedures and handshake protocols to access HW functions, which requires a deep understanding of both the HW interfaces and the TLM fabric used. In this paper, we propose our concept of hardware procedure calls (HPC) with which HW services are provided to SW processes as remote methods on top of transaction-level communication. To this end, a lightweight HPC protocol is presented, and we propose a method to generate the infrastructure for HPC communication from a straightforward input description. Our experiments show that with HPC, embedded SW development is considerably made easier, and that also the effort to create the transaction-level model itself is reduced.