Hardware/Software Co-design of Embedded System Using SystemC Modeling Platform

In this paper a SystemC based hardware/software co-design methodology for embedded system is presented. By adopting SystemC, the open C++ modeling platform promoted by the Open SystemC Initiative which provides a well-defined set of C++ classes to accurately describe hardware, C++ can be chosen to describe both hardware and software throughout the whole design flow to support hardware/software co-design. Our methodology supports the efficient mapping of C++ functional descriptions directly into hardware and software and provides great flexibility and enables faster simulation compared to existing methodologies.