SystemC-A: Analogue and Mixed-Signal Language

In the light of the growing popularity of mixed, analogue and digital ASICs and System on Chip, several high level hardware description languages (HDLs), such as VHDL and Verilog, have recently been extended to provide analogue and mixed-signal (AMS) modelling capabilities. SystemC is a new language added recently to the existing HDLs used by the digital electronic design community. In this book a novel methodology has developed that enables the extension of SystemC to the analogue domain and allows simulations of mixed-signal and mixed-domain systems on arbitrary levels of abstraction. The developed AMS extension is named SystemC-A and complies with SystemC semantics. In many respects, SystemC-A is more powerful than many existing HDLs.

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Hessa Al-Junaid is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain since 2006. She received her PhD in electronics engineering from Southampton University, UK, in 2006. Al-Junaid published a number of papers in the field of computer aided designs for modeling analogue and mixed-signal systems.