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The paradigm shift on embedded systems synthesis currently brings the design exploration towards higher levels of abstraction. Consequently, a need arises for an early and realistic assessment of system-level design decisions as well as its support from the design language used. Moreover, while execution properties of embedded software processes, which more and more dominate the functionality of embedded systems, can considerably vary, the chosen scheduling policy influences distinctly the execution properties. Unfortunately, the current version of SystemC is still lacks of that software modeling support. Therefore, the modeling capability of SystemC is being extended in this paper by generic real-time operating system services thus providing more realistic software modeling features. System and software design alternatives can thus be early explored and different scheduling policies can be easily validated.
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Hastono, P., Klaus, S., Huss, S.A. (2005). Systemc Models for Realistic Simulations Involving Real-Time Operating System Services. In: Boulet, P. (eds) Advances in Design and Specification Languages for SoCs. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26151-6_17
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