Incorporating SystemC in Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Flow

In today’s flows, there is still a gap between system level description and hardware implementation, especially for analog/RF building blocks. SystemC-AMS or co-simulations have been described in the literature as possible ways to bridge that gap. In a co-simulation, two r kernels interact with each other, possibly at different levels of abstraction. Usually, each abstraction is modeled in a different language and environment. SystemC-AMS, on the contrary, is a single-language approach and focuses on simulating analog/RF continuous-time models at system level. This contribution outlines a third concept of interfacing SystemC with analog/RF hardware description and transistor level implementation. It focuses on a schematicdriven flow, which is useful to analog/RF designers who preferably work with GUI-based environments, waveform viewers, and do not want to border much with system level languages, such as SystemC. In an automated import flow, SystemC modules are enveloped in Verilog-...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: FDL
• Authors: Patrick Birrer, Walter Hartong
• Keywords: Analog/RF Building Blocks, Analog/RF Continuous-time Models, Analog/RF Hardware Description, FDL 2005