Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs Selected papers from FDL 2005

Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs includes a selection of the best contributions to the Forum on Specification and Design Languages held in 2005 (FDL'05). Since its inception in 1998, FDL has established itself as the premier European forum to exchange experiences and learn about new trends in the application of languages and models for the specification and modeling of electronic systems.

This book provides detailed insights into recent works dealing with a large spectrum of issues in system-on-chip design, namely: assertion-based design, mapping on network-on-chip architectures, use of C/C++/SystemC design methodologies, hardware/software integration, mixing heterogeneous models of computation, analog/mixed-signal/mixed-technology system design and verification, UML/XML-based synthesis of analog and mixed-signal systems, UML to VHDL mapping, UML-based performance modeling, model transformation and formal verification, real-time system models, and Model Driven Architecture.

All chapters in Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs have been carefully revised and extended to offer up-to-date information. They also constitute excellent seeds for further researches and developments in the field of heterogeneous systems-on-chip design.

Specification, Design, and Verification Methods.- PSL-Based Online Monitoring of Digital Systems.- Refining Synchronous Communication onto Network-on-Chip Best-Effort Services.- C/C++-Based System Design.- Behaviour Separation: A High-Level Methodology Applicable in the SystemC Environment.- Mixing Synchronous Reactive and Untimed MoCs in SystemC.- Interface-Centric Abstraction Level for Rapid Hardware/Software Integration.- Efficient and Customizable Integration of Temporal Properties into SystemC.- UMoC++: A C++-Based Multi-MoC Modeling Environment.- Analog, Mixed-Signal, and Heterogeneous System Design.- Creating Virtual Prototypes of Complex MEMS Transducers Using Reduced-Order Modelling Methods and VHDL-AMS.- Modeling Uncertainty in Nonlinear Analog Systems with Affine Arithmetic.- SystemC-WMS: Mixed-Signal Simulation Based on Wave Exchanges.- Automatic Generation of a Coverification Platform.- UML/XML-Based Approach to Hierarchical AMS Synthesis.- UML-Based System Specification and Design.- Compiled and Synthesized UML.- Property-Preservation Synthesis for Unified Control- and Data-Oriented Models.- Traceability and Interoperability at Different Levels of Abstraction in Model-Driven Engineering.- Power Simulation of Communication Protocols with StateC.- Integrating Model-Checking with UML-Based SoC Development.