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DATICS-IMECS, Hong Kong (2011)

Efficient Encoding of SystemC/TLM in Promela

Kevin Marquet 1, Matthieu Moy 1, Bertrand Jeannet 2

For the opentlm collaboration(s)

(2011-03-16)

To deal with the ever growing complexity of Systems-on-Chip, designers use models early in the design flow. SystemC is a commonly used tool to write such models. In order to verify these models, one thriving approach is to encode its semantics into a formal language, and then to verify it with verification tools. Various encodings of SystemC into formal lan- guages have already been proposed, with different performance implications. In this paper, we investigate a new, automatic, asynchronous means to formalize models. Our encoding supports the subset of the concurrency and communication constructs offered by SystemC used for high-level modeling. We increase the confidence in the fact that encoded programs have the same semantics as the original one by model-checking a set of properties. We give experimental results on our formalization and compare with previous works.

1:	VERIMAG (VERIMAG - IMAG)
	CNRS : UMR5104 – Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I – Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)
2:	POP ART (INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes / LIG Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble)
	INRIA – Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) – Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I – Université Pierre Mendès-France - Grenoble II – CNRS : UMR5217

Research team: SYNCHRONE, POPART

Subject

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Computer Science/Formal Languages and Automata Theory Computer Science/Modeling and Simulation Computer Science/Embedded Systems

Keyword(s): SystemC – Transaction-Level Modeling – Promela – Spin – Model-checking

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Submitted on: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 10:35:42

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