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

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. Categories and Subject Descriptors B.6.3 [Logic Design]: Design Aids—Hardware description languages General Terms Languages Keywords SystemC, front-end, parser, static, dynamic, elaboration

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: EMSOFT
• Authors: Matthieu Moy, Florence Maraninchi, Laurent Maillet-Contoz
• Keywords: EMSOFT 2005, Languages Keywords SystemC, Realistic Socs Designs, SystemC