A scriptable, standards-compliant reporting and logging extension for SystemC

Abstract—The shift towards more and more complex Systemon-Chips fosters high-level modeling (HLM) of new systems in order to provide required time-to-first-virtual-prototype and adequate simulation speed. Using HLM furthermore allows running exhaustive simulations are, enabling the developer to gain a plethora of information from the system during simulation. Reporting, logging, analyzing, and interpreting this vast amount of data requires a potent report and logging system. This paper proposes such a solution: the presented system is build on the foundations of SystemC’s sc_report class and maintains full compatibility with it. To provide extensive search and analysis features, the proposed solution features Python-based scripting capabilities and supports attached key-value pairs to each report message. Using highly efficient black- and whitelisting filters empowers the user to reported events during runtime and suppresses all irrelevant reports in order to achieve fast simula...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: SAMOS
• Authors: Jan Wagner, Rolf Meyer, Rainer Buchty, Mladen Berekovic
• Keywords: Embedded Systems, SAMOS 2015