SystemC for bare metal

[eactor]

Hello,

Is it possible to compile SystemC for any Processor for bare metal without the needed user space with threading of an OS?

So in other words is it possible to include the pthreads into a bare metal implementation?

cheers

eactor

 

 

[dakupoto]

Hello,

That is an interesting question, but doubtful if it will work. First of all, the

SystemC is a C++ library, very much dependent on its compiler. But the

chief problem is that it is very doubtful if any compiler can work without

a supporting OS.

 

[eactor]

Why not? There are tons of compilers building programms for microcontrollers, SOCs etc. , which work without the need for an ABI ( Application binary interface) of an OS.

[maehne]

Hello,

 

to compile SystemC, your compiler needs to be C++'03 compliant including standard library (C and STL). Additionally, SystemC requires the infrastructure to executes co-routines with an own stack, which can be interrupted and resumed. The proof-of-concept implementation by ASI realizes this using Fibers on Windows, QuickThreads or Pthreads on Unix in the src/sysc/kernel/sc_cor*.{h|cpp} implementation files. It may be easiest to port QuickThreads to your target platform than Pthreads, as it is more lightweight. The tracing requires file/stream I/O capabilities.

 

Best regards,

 

Torsten