Target software generation: an approach for automatic mapping of SystemC specifications onto real-time operating systems

Krause, Matthias; Bringmann, Oliver

doi:10.1007/s10617-006-0590-8

Cited by 21 publications

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“…This approach, in advantage, uses the same model both for specification and target execution, however, it potentially replicates aspects of the simulation engine on the target. Other approaches focus on the RTOS integration, such as Krause et al [22] which generates source code from SystemC for application to RTOS mapping, and Gauthier et al [14] for generation of an application-specific operating system.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

System-level development of embedded software

Schirner

Gerstlauer

Domer

2010

2010 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)

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Abstract-Embedded software plays an increasingly important role in implementing modern embedded systems. Development of embedded software, and of Hardware-dependent Software in particular, is challenging due to the tight integration with the underlying hardware architecture.In this paper, we describe our system-level design approach that allows designers to develop software in form of a platformagnostic specification. Our design environment enables exploration of different architectural alternatives and subsequently generates the software implementation. It generates the application code, communication drivers, and an adaptation to a chosen RTOS. It completes the process by producing the final target binary for each processor. Our experimental results demonstrate the automatic generation of the binaries for five control and media oriented applications.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

System-level development of embedded software

Schirner

Gerstlauer

Domer

2010

2010 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)

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“…Our proposed solution shows neither limitation. Krause et al [18] generate source code from SystemC mapped onto an RTOS. In addition to RTOS mapping, our approach generates detailed communication and synchronization code, and the final target binary.…”

Section: A Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic generation of hardware dependent software for MPSoCs from abstract system specifications

Schirner¹,

Gerstlauer²,

Domer³

2008

2008 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

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Abstract-Increasing software content in embedded systems and SoCs drives the demand to automatically synthesize software binaries from abstract models. This is especially critical for Hardware dependent Software (HdS) due to the tight coupling.In this paper, we present our approach to automatically synthesize HdS from an abstract system model. We synthesize driver code, interrupt handlers and startup code. We furthermore automatically adjust the application to use RTOS services. We target traditional RTOS-based multi-tasking solutions, as well as a pure interrupt-based implementation (without any RTOS).Our experimental results show the automatic generation of final binary images for six real-life target applications and demonstrate significant productivity gains due to automation. Our HdS synthesis is an enabler for efficient MPSoC development and rapid design space exploration.

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“…[1,5,9,12] consider C++ code generation for a target RTOS from the SystemC language. In [15], ANSI C code generation from SpecC models is discussed.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One ultimate goal is to allow for early embedded SW development based on a virtual prototype of the HW platform. Much work has been done in embedded SW generation from a transaction-level description [1,2,5,9,12,15]. Typical to these approaches is that the SW developers are obliged to use a dedicated TLM API in order to access the functionality of HW IP.…”

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Embedded software development on top of transaction-level models

Klingauf

Günzel

Schröder

2007

Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis

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Early embedded SW development with transaction-level models has been broadly promoted to improve SoC design productivity. But the proposed APIs only provide low-level read/write operations via a TLM interconnect. SW developers have to implement platform-specific communication procedures and handshake protocols to access HW functions, which requires a deep understanding of both the HW interfaces and the TLM fabric used. In this paper, we propose our concept of hardware procedure calls (HPC) with which HW services are provided to SW processes as remote methods on top of transaction-level communication. To this end, a lightweight HPC protocol is presented, and we propose a method to generate the infrastructure for HPC communication from a straightforward input description. Our experiments show that with HPC, embedded SW development is considerably made easier, and that also the effort to create the transaction-level model itself is reduced.

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Target software generation: an approach for automatic mapping of SystemC specifications onto real-time operating systems

Cited by 21 publications

References 15 publications

System-level development of embedded software

System-level development of embedded software

Automatic generation of hardware dependent software for MPSoCs from abstract system specifications

Embedded software development on top of transaction-level models

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