Heterogeneous behavioral hierarchy for system level designs

Enhancing productivity for designing complex embedded systems requires system level design methodology and language support for capturing complex design in high level models. For an effective methodology, efficiency of simulation and a sound refinement based implementation path are also necessary. Although some of the recent system level design languages for system level abstractions, several essential ingredients are missing from these. We consider (i) explicit support for multiple models of computation (MoCs) or heterogeneity; (ii) the ability to build complex behaviors by hierarchically composing simpler behaviors; and (iii) hierarchical composition of behaviors that belong to distinct models of computation, as essential for successful SLDLs. These render an SLDL with modeling fidelity that exploits both heterogeneity and hierarchy and allows for simpler modeling and efficient simulation. One important requirement for such an SLDL should be that the simulation semantics be also...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: DATE
• Authors: Hiren D. Patel, Sandeep K. Shukla, Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi
• Keywords: DATE 2006, Hardware, Level Design, Simulation, Simulation Semantics