UML and SystemC - Comparison and Mapping Rules for Automatic Code Generation

In English Today embedded system development is a complex task. To aid the engineers new methodologies and languages are emerging. During the development the system is modelled using different tools and languages. Transformations between the models are traditionally done manually. We investigate the automation of this process, specifically we are looking at automatic UML to SystemC transformation. In this paper we compare UML and SystemC, focusing on communication modelling. We also present mapping rules for automatic SystemC code generation from UML. The mapping has been implemented in our UML to SystemC code generator.