IPSIM: SystemC 3.0 enhancements for communication refinement [SoC design]
Marcello Coppola, S. Curaba, Miltos D. Grammatikakis, Giuseppe Maruccia · 2003
Refinement is a key methodology for SoC design. The proposed IPSIM design environment, based on a C++ modeling library developed on top of SystemC 3.0, supports an object-oriented design methodology, separates IP modules into behavior and communication components, and further establishes two inter-module communication layers. The message box layer includes generic and system-specific communication, while the driver layer implements higher level user-defined communications as illustrated in a design example.