Synthesis of glue logic, transactors, multiplexors and serialisors from protocol specifications

Today's system-on-chip (SoC) systems must be designed as quickly as possible by integrating IP blocks from diverse suppliers. In this paper, we present a new automata based algorithm that automatically synthesizes glue logic for SoC fabrication and Transaction-level modelling (TLM) transactors for SoC modelling. Our approach introduces a new encoding for state variables which captures data conservation property and supports simple point-to-point connections as well as those the perform functions such as multiplexing, filtering and serialising.