SystemC Based Approach

This chapter describes the SystemC based modelling techniques and tools that support the design of reconfigurable systems-on-chip (SoC). For designing of reconfigurable parts at system level, we developed: 1) an estimation method and tool for estimating the execution time and the resource consumption of function blocks on dynamically reconfigurable logic to support system partitioning, 2) a SystemC based modeling method and tool for reconfigurable parts to allow fast design space exploration through 3) system-level simulation using transaction-level models of the system.