Contribution to graphical representation of SystemC structural model simulation
Ján Turoň, Katarína Jelemenská · 2010
Nowadays SystemC plays an important role in digital system design. This C++ class library provides the necessary constructs to model system architecture including hardware timing, concurrency, and reactive behaviour missing in standard C++. The SystemC framework offers also simulation kernel to simulate SystemC Models but without a graphical user interface (GUI). This framework can be in some way integrated into an existing tool using then its GUI, as it was done by leading EDA (Electronic Design Automation) companies, but there is also the possibility to extend the framework itself. This approach was used and is presented in this paper. We propose the extensions of SystemC library to enable graphical representation of user's structural model and graphical presentation of simulation results in conjunction with the model schematic visualization. The resulting schematic view is clear, and easy to understand. Together with built in simulator it is a powerful tool for structure verification and debugging.