Verification of SystemC transaction level models using an aspect-oriented and generic approach
Meriam Kallel, Younes Lahbib, Rached Tourki, Adel Baganne · 2010
Transaction level modeling (TLM) has become an accepted and well supported paradigm that is intended to create hardware designs at high abstraction levels. In this paper, we present a methodology that targets the verification of SystemC transaction level models using runtime monitoring. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) techniques are exploited to handle the high-level TLM features in an automated and generic way. No modifications are needed in the design's SystemC code. In addition, a wide range of functional and performance assertions is addressed. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach on a realistic system-on-chip platform based on TLM-2.0 standard compliant models and including Open Core Protocol (OCP) interfaces.