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2004

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Kesen, Lokman

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In this thesis, an 8-bit microcontroller, 8051 core, is implemented using SystemC programming language. SystemC is a new generation co-design language which is capable of both programming software and describing hardware parts of a complete system. The benefit of this design environment appears while developing a System-on-Chip (SoC), that is a system consisting both custom hardware parts and embedded software parts. SystemC is not a completely new language, but based on C++ with some additional class libraries and extensions to handle hardware related concepts such as signals, multi-valued logic, clock and delay elements. 8051 is an 8 bit microcontroller which is widely used in industry for many years. The 8051 core is still being used as the main controller in today2s highly complex chips, such as communication and bus controllers. During the development cycles of a System-on-Chip, instead of using separate design environments for hardware and software parts, the usage of a unified co-design environment provides a better design and simulation methodology which also decreases the number of iterations at hardware software integration. In this work, an 8-bit 8051 microcontroller core and external memory modules are developed using SystemC that can be re-used in future designs to achieve more complex System-on-Chip2s. During the development of the 8051 core, simulation results are analyzed at each step to verify the design from the very beginning of the work, which makes the design processes more structured and controlled and faster as a result.

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Electronic computers., Computer science.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605653/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14639

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