Gaspard2: from MARTE to SystemC Simulation

Abstract

To efficiently use the tremendous amount of hard-ware resources available in next generation MultiProcessorSystems-on-Chip (MPSoC), new design methodologies andtools are needed to reduce the development complexity ofsuch systems. In this paper, we present an efficient MPSoCdesign environment, Gaspard2. It uses the new standardMARTE (Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time and Embed-ded systems) profile for high level system representation.Gaspard2 is based on a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE)methodology allowing to move from the primary modelingform to an executable platform. In our work, we targetSystemC code generation at the Timed Programmer View(PVT) level. To reach our objective, a compilation chain hasbeen developed, made up of several model to model trans-formations.Keywords: MPSoC, MARTE, Gaspard2, MDE, transfor-mation, UML, SystemC