System-Level Modeling and Design Using SysML and SystemC

SysML, the dedicated system-level UML-based notations proposed by the OMG, is gaining a lot of momentum to be widely accepted by system-level designers. IEEE has standardized SystemC to gain the fame of being powerful at the system-level architectural design and verification. Building on both SystemC and SysML success, we have dedicated this research to study and prototype the automatic translation of SysML designs into SystemC models. This work is an attempt to accelerate the SoC design process by raising the abstraction level in an automated environment.