SystemC TLM2-protocol consistency checker using Petri net

Abstract

SystemC has been developed as a standard system level language intended to enable transaction level modeling (TLM) and intellectual properties (IPs) exchange at multiple abstraction levels. To re-use formal analysis and verification methods on a SystemC code, the code has to be translated to a formal representation. Petri net is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of communication protocols and programs written with process-oriented parallel languages. In a previous work we dealt with the translation of a SystemC TLM module to Petri net. In this paper, we extend the translation to verify the TLM2 protocol consistency used by a module.