SystemC Implementation of VLSI Embedded Systems for MEMS Application
Junfang Yao, Subbarao V. Wunnava · 2006
With the increasing complexity of today’s Integrated Circuits (IC) system and rapidly technology advancing, a single chip with smaller and smaller size can integrate more and more functionality. A high level of abstraction for modeling IC designs is required before hardware and software components in a single chip are implemented. SystemC is such a system level modeling language useful for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design. With various features SystemC can perform system level modeling and simulation, which are missing in the generic Hardware Description Language (HDL)’s such as Very High Speed Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and Verilog (Sirpatil, 2002). In this paper the benefit of the SystemC technology is introduced, and also the design innovations of the SystemC Hardware Description Language was presented. Some interactive case studies of the Digital System Designs, such as Counters, Shift Registers, and Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU) were studied.