An open source tool for systemc to verilog automatic translation

They are specialized in the analysis of the SystemC source code in order to retrieve as much information about the design as possible. Documents: Advanced Search Include Citations. Authors: Advanced Search Include Citations. Results 1 - 8 of 8. SystemC is a system-level modeling language and offers support for concurrency and arbitrary-width bit-vector arithmetic. The existing static analyzers for SystemC consider only small fragments of the language.

The mo The models generated by Scoot can serve multiple purposes, ranging from verification and simulation to synthesis. Exemplarily, we report results indicating that our tool can be used to improve the performance of dynamic execution up to a factor of five.

Citation Context Abstract—SystemC is a widely used tool for prototyping Systems-on-a-Chip. However, a SystemC program needs to be processed by a dedicated tool in order to visualize, formally verify, deb In this paper we focus on the tools called front-ends used in the initial stages of processing SystemC programs.

We describe the challenges in developing SystemC front-ends and present a survey of existing solutions. The limitations and capabilities of these tools are compared for various features of SystemC and intended back-end applications. We present typical examples that front-ends should ideally be able to process, and give theoretical limitations as well as experimental results of existing tools. SystemC currently is the The extraction of data from system designs written in SystemC is thereby crucial e.

In this work, we present an approach that overcomes these limitations. A methodology is introduced which enables full extraction of the desired information from a given SystemC design without changing the SystemC library or the compiler. The proposed system retrieves both, static and dynamic information.

A comparison to previously proposed solutions shows the benefits of the proposed method, while its application is illustrated by means of a visualization engine. Abstract — Structural modeling serves as an efficient method for creating detailed microarchitectural models of complex microprocessors. High-level language constructs such as templates and object polymorphism are used to achieve a high degree of code reuse, thereby reducing development time.

Abstract - Add to MetaCart Abstract — Structural modeling serves as an efficient method for creating detailed microarchitectural models of complex microprocessors. However, these modeling frameworks are currently too slow to evaluate future design of multicore microprocessors. The synthesis of portions of these models into hardware to form hybrid simulators promises to improve their speed substantially.

Unfortunately, the high-level language constructs used in structural simulation frameworks are not typically synthesizable. One factor which limits their synthesis is that it is very difficult to determine statically what exactly the code and data to synthesize are. People who contribute to SystemC are doing that in a spare time.

So it would not hurt any business, but rather to promote SystemC as a design language. This explains why we are seeing students running SystemC in Vivado on this forum. I know, universities can buy licenses EDA licenses for very low cost. When I was a student we got commercial tools installed in university. But still you can't install them on your own laptop for learning at home. So free FPGA tools were always the best for practice. For what it is worth, there are several open-source tools developed by academia available, which translate SystemC RTL descriptions to Verilog and vice versa:.

The development of most of these projects was not very active over the past years, but as they are open-source, you're free to pick them up. Otherwise, I fully agree with David's statement that it is not the task of Accellera to develop such tools and also not in the commercial interest of EDA tool vendors, as it is in an area, where they can differentiate themselves most from their competition. For academia and industry there might be some interest for open-source tools as a base for custom tooling, which has to fulfil very particular needs.

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