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TLM.open: a SystemC/TLM Frontend for the CADP Verification Toolbox

Author Claude Helmstetter

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  • Hardware
  • Hardware → Hardware validation
  • Hardware → Functional verification
  • Hardware → Transaction-level verification
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  • Model checking
  • Verification
  • Simulation
  • SystemC
  • Transactional modeling

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Abstract

SystemC/TLM models, which are C++ programs, allow the simulation of embedded software before hardware low-level descriptions are available and are used as golden models for hardware verification. The verification of the SystemC/TLM models is an important issue since an error in the model can mislead the system designers or reveal an error in the specifications. An open-source simulator for SystemC/TLM is provided but there are no tools for formal verification.In order to apply model checking to a SystemC/TLM model, a semantics for standard C++ code and for specific SystemC/TLM features must be provided. The usual approach relies on the translation of the SystemC/TLM code into a formal language for which a model checker is available.We propose another approach that suppresses the error-prone translation effort. Given a SystemC/TLM program, the transitions are obtained by executing the original code using g++ and an extended SystemC library, and we ask the user to provide additional functions to store the current model state. These additional functions generally represent less than 20% of the size of the original model, and allow it to apply all CADP verification tools to the SystemC/TLM model itself.

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Claude Helmstetter. TLM.open: a SystemC/TLM Frontend for the CADP Verification Toolbox. In LITES, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2014). Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 02:1-02:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014) https://doi.org/10.4230/LITES-v001-i001-a002

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Claude Helmstetter
  • Verimag - CNRS, 2 Avenue de Vignate, 38610 Gières, France

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