To get familiar with the SystemC,
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 environment.
To design synchronous components
using SystemC at the Behavioral level.
Simulate and test components.
Design Problems
For this lab, you are required to write a SystemC description
at the behavioral level of a 4-bit up/down counter and a 4-byte register file.
Once you have these two components, you need to write a testbench and simulation
file to show the correctness of each one. For a general description of registers
look in the Embedded Systems Design book on pages 34 and 35.
Up/Down Counter
The inputs, outputs, and functionality of the up/down counter are as
follows:
CLK: This signal will be used as a clock signal.
PE: Asynchronous enable signal for the counter
UD: If '0', counter counts down; If '1' counter counts up;
BD: If '0', counter can count from "0 to 9"; If '1' counter
can count from "0 to 15"
P: The input of the counter.
Q: The output of the counter.
Parallel Load/Shift Register
Size is 4 bytes, i.e. four rows of 8 bits. Each row (byte) is addressable.
The inputs, outputs, and functionality of the parallel load/shift register
are as follows:
