Communication and co-simulation infrastructure for heterogeneous system integration

With the increasing complexity and heterogeneity of embedded electronic systems, a unified design methodology at evels of abstraction becomes a necessity. Meanwhile, it is also important to incorporate the current design practice emphasizing IP reuse at various abstraction levels. Howe abstraction gap prohibits easy communication and synchronization in IP integration and co-simulation. In this paper, we present a communication infrastructure for an integrated design framework that enables co-design and cosimulation of heterogeneous design components specified at t abstraction levels and in different languages. The the approach is to abstract different communication interfaces or protocols to a common high level communication semantics. Designers only need to specify the interfaces of the design components using extended regular expressions; communication adapters can then be automatically generated for the co-simulation or other co-design and co-verification purposes.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: DATE
• Authors: Guang Yang 0004, Xi Chen, Felice Balarin, Harry Hsieh, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
• Keywords: Abstraction, Abstraction Levels, Communication, DATE 2006, Hardware