A System Level Design Flow for Embedded Systems based on Model of Computation Mappings

This paper describes an embedded systems design flow containing Models of Computation (MoC). We thoroughly survey the different abstraction layers and detail a modeling hierarchy for a MoC-based design flow. Thus, we outline different MoC-classes where the MoCs can be transformed horizontally into each other and successively transformed vertically down to SystemC. Therefore, our proposed design flow can benefit both from MoC specific properties and the features of an advances SystemC environment. The feasibility of our approach is demonstrated by the transformation of the Discrete Event Specified Systems model (DEVS) into SystemC for a complex real life design.