Applications of Specification and Design Languages for Socs: Selected Papers from Fdl 2005

This book includes a selection of the best contributions to the Forum on Specification and Design Languages held in 2005 (FDL'05). It provides detailed insights into recent works dealing with a large spectrum of issues in system-on-chip design. All the chapters have been carefully revised and extended to offer up-to-date information. They also provide seeds for further researches and developments in the field of heterogeneous systems-on-chip design.

Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs includes a selection of the best contributions to the Forum on Specification and Design Languages held in 2005 (FDL'05). Since its inception in 1998, FDL has established itself as the premier European forum to exchange experiences and learn about new trends in the application of languages and models for the specification and modeling of electronic systems.

This book provides detailed insights into recent works dealing with a large spectrum of issues in system-on-chip design, namely: assertion-based design, mapping on network-on-chip architectures, use of C/C++/SystemC design methodologies, hardware/software integration, mixing heterogeneous models of computation, analog/mixed-signal/mixed-technology system design and verification, UML/XML-based synthesis of analog and mixed-signal systems, UML to VHDL mapping, UML-based performance modeling, model transformation and formal verification, real-time system models, and Model Driven Architecture.

All chapters in Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs have been carefully revised and extended to offer up-to-date information. They also constitute excellent seeds for further researches and developments in the field of heterogeneous systems-on-chip design.

This book includes a selection of the best contributions to the Forum on Specification and Design Languages held in 2005 (FDL'05). Since its inception in 1998, FDL has established itself as the premier European forum to exchange experiences and learn about new trends in the application of languages and models for the specification and modeling of electronic systems.

This book provides detailed insights into recent works dealing with a large spectrum of issues in system-on-chip design, namely: assertion-based design, mapping on network-on-chip architectures, use of C/C++/SystemC design methodologies, hardware/software integration, mixing heterogeneous models of computation, analog/mixed-signal/mixed-technology system design and verification, UML/XML-based synthesis of analog and mixed-signal systems, UML to VHDL mapping, UML-based performance modeling, model transformation and formal verification, real-time system models, and Model Driven Architecture.

All the chapters have been carefully revised and extended to offer up-to-date information. They also constitute excellent seeds for further researches and developments in the field of heterogeneous systems-on-chip design.

List of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword; Alain Vachoux. Part I Specification, Design and Verification Methods. Introduction; Alain Vachoux. 1. PSL-Based Online Monitoring of Digital Systems; Dominique Borrione, Miao Liu, Pierre Ostier, and Laurent Fesquet. 2. Refining Synchronous Communication onto NoC Best-Effort Services; Zhonghai Lu, Ingo Sander, and Axel Jantsch. Part II C/C++-Based System Design. Introduction; Frank Oppenheimer. 3. Behaviour Separation Methodology; Giovanni B. Vece, Massimo Conti, and Simone Orcioni. 4. Mixing Synchronous Reactive and Untimed MoCs in SystemC; Fernando Herrera and Eugenio Villar. 5. Interface-Centric Abstraction Level for Rapid HW/SW Integration; André C. Nácul, Marcello Lajolo, and Tony Givargis. 6. Efficient and Customizable Integration of Temporal Properties into SystemC; Roland J. Weiss, Jürgen Ruf, Thomas Kropf, and Wolfgang Rosenstiel. 7. UMoC++: A C++ Based Multi-MoC Modeling Environment; Deepak A. Mathaikutty, Hiren D. Patel, Sandeep K. Shukla, and Axel Jantsch. Part III Analog, Mixed-Signal and Heterogeneous System Design. Introduction; Christoph Grimm. 8. Creating Virtual Prototypes of Complex MEMS Transducers Using Reduced-Order Modelling Methods and VHDL-AMS; Torsten Mähne, Kersten Kehr, Axel Franke, Jörg Hauer, and Bertram Schmidt. 9. Modeling Uncertainty in Nonlinear Analog Systems with Affine Arithmetic; Wilhelm Heupke, Christoph Grimm, and Klaus Waldschmidt. 10. SystemC-WMS: Mixed Signal Simulation based on Wave exchanges; Simone Orcioni, Giorgio Biagetti, and Massimo Conti. 11. Automatic Generation of a Co-Verification Platform; Suad Kajtazovic, Christian Steger, Andreas Schuhai, and Markus Pistauer. 12. UML/XML-based approach to hierarchical AMS synthesis; Ian O'Connor, Faress Tissafi-Drissi, Guillaume Révy, and Frédéric Gaffiot. Part IV UML-Based System Specification and Design. Introduction; Piet van der Putten. 13. Compiled and Synthesized UML; Cathy Berthouzoz, Francois Corthay, Medard Rieder, Rico Steiner, and Thomas Sterren. 14. Property-Preservation Synthesis for Unified Control- and Data-Oriented Models; Oana Florescu, Jeroen Voeten, and Henk Corporaal. 15. Traceability and Interoperability at Different Levels of Abstraction in Model Transformations; Lossan Bonde, Pierre Boulet, and Jean-Luc Dekeyser. 16. Power simulation of communication protocols with StateC; Luca Negri and Andrea Chiarini. 17. Integrating Model-Checking with UML-based SoC Development; Peter Green and Kinika Tasie-Amadi.