Electronic System Level Design: an Open-Source Approach is based on
the successful experience acquired with the conception of the ADL ArchC,
the development of its underlying tool suite, and the building of its
platform modeling infrastructure. With more than 10000 accesses per year
since 2004, the dissemination of ArchC models reached not only students
in quest of proper infrastructure to develop their research projects but
also some companies in need of processor models to build virtual
platforms using SystemC.
The need to anticipate the development of hardware-dependent software
and to build virtual prototypes gave rise to Transaction Level Modeling
(TLM). Since SystemC provided the elements and the adequate abstraction
level for supporting TLM, their relation has grown so strong that OSCI
created a TLM Working Group whose effort resulted in the recently
released TLM 2.0 standard, which is also covered in this book.