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Ever considered SystemC? (2004)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Devos, Harald Eeckhaut, Hendrik Schrauwen, Benjamin Christiaens, Mark Stroobandt, Dirk |
| Description | In recent years a lot of new C-based design languages have been developed. They all promise a smoother transition from a high level to a low level description of a hardware system. A disadvantage of these new languages is that a lot of simulation models of e.g. FPGA-cores are only available in standard languages like VHDL or Verilog. This makes it hard to develop a complete system with one of those new languages. However in a modular design approach this should not cause a problem. Here a distinction is made between application specific and hardware platform specific modules. It is possible to describe the application at a high level with e.g. SystemC and refine its modules with the same language, using simple models of the underlying hardware, until a level where translation to VHDL/Verilog is trivial. The platform specific modules can then be developed bottom up using the available VHDL/Verilog models of the used cores. In this paper the design of an IDWT is taken as a testcase. The design traject starts from a C-description and uses SystemC to arrive at a synthesizable level where an automatic translation to VHDL is done, which allows implementation on an FPGA. One can conclude that although tool support is only emerging recently for these new C-based languages their benefits can already be exploited when using the right language at the right place. |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2004-01-01 |
| Publisher Institution | IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH PRORISC WORKSHOP |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Design Traject Complete System Standard Language Simple Model Low Level Description Platform Specific Module Vhdl Verilog Available Vhdl Verilog Model High Level New C-based Design Language Application Specific Modular Design Approach Used Core Hardware System New Language Right Place Hardware Platform Specific Module Synthesizable Level Automatic Translation Right Language Recent Year Simulation Model Tool Support New C-based Language |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
