Advances in Design and Specification Languages for SoCs: Selected Contributions from FDL'04 / Edition 1

by Pierre Boulet

Overview

The seventh book in the CHDL Series is composed of a selection of the best articles from the Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL'04). FDL is the European Forum to learn and exchange on new trends on the application of languages and models for the design of electronic and heterogeneous systems.

The forum was structured around four workshops that are all represented in the book by outstanding articles: Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems, UML-based System Specification and Design, C/C++-Based System Design and Languages for Formal Specification and Verification.

The Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems contributions bring some answers to the difficult problem of co-simulating discrete and continuous models of computation. The UML-based System Specification and Design chapters bring insight into how to use the Model Driven Engineering to design Systems-on-Chip. The C/C++-Based System Design articles mainly explore system level design with SystemC. The Languages for Formal
Specification and Verification is represented by an invited contribution on the use of temporal assertions for symbolic model checking and simulation. And finally chapter in this book contributed by preeminent members of the automotive design industry presents the recent industry standard AutoSAR.

Overall Advances in Design and Specification Languages for SoCs is an excellent opportunity to catch up with the latest research developments in the field of languages for electronic and heterogeneous system design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387261492
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	09/23/2005
Series:	The ChDL Series
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	305
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.13(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems.- Refinement of Mixed-Signal Systems: Between Heaven and Hell.- Mixed Nets, Conversion Models, and VHDL-AMS.- Monte Carlo Simulation Using VHDL-AMS.- Early Prediction of Conducted-Mode Emission of Complex Ic’s.- Practical Case Example of Inertial Mems Modeling with VHDL-AMS.- UML-Based System Specification and Design.- Metamodels and MDA Transformations for Embedded Systems.- Model Based Testing and Refinement in MDA Based Development.- Predictability in Real-Time System Development.- Timing Performances of Automatically Generated Code Using MDA Approaches.- UML-Executable Functional Models of Electronic Systems in the VIPERS Virtual Prototyping Methodology.- C/C++-Based System Design.- Designing for Dynamic Partially Reconfigurable FPGAS with Systemc and OSSS.- Heterogeneous System-Level Specification in Systemc.- xHDL: Extending VHDL to Improve Core Parameterization and Reuse.- Systemc Models for Realistic Simulations Involving Real-Time Operating System Services.- Systemc and OCAPI-XL Based System-Level Design for Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip.- Invited Contributions.- Symbolic Model Checking and Simulation with Temporal Assertions.- Automotive System Design and Autosar.