Pinapa: A SystemC front-end

What is Pinapa

Pinapa is an open source SystemC front-end. It relies on GCC to parse the C++, and on the SystemC library itself to extract the architecture of the platform to analyze.

Usefull links

Download Pinapa

• Read the download page to download and install Pinapa.

Documentation

• Documentation of Pinapa: Everything you neet to use the Pinapa library.
• PINAPA: An Extraction Tool for SystemC descriptions of Systems-on-a-Chip: A white paper about Pinapa, published in proceedings of EMSOFT'05.
• Techniques and Tools for the Verification of Systems-on-a-Chip at the Transaction Level: Ph.D thesis of Matthieu Moy, the author of Pinapa. Chapter 4 describes Pinapa.

Pinapa on sourceforge

• The GreenSoCs project, grouping several SystemC-related projects.
• The bugtracker
• The mailing list

The GreenSoCs project

Pinapa is distributed as a component of the GreenSoCs project. More details can be found on the greensocs home page.

The SOCTLM project

Pinapa is an component of a joint project between the Verimag laboratory and STMicroelectronics. The project aims to create a environment for the verification of Systems-on-a-Chip at the Transaction Level.