UVM Reporting (SV) of transactions generated from SystemC model

[c4brian]

I have an untimed, event driven systemC model inside of a SystemVerilog UVM environment.  At time .000150, an actual transaction is detected on the bus, and send to the scoreboard.

 

The transaction from the SystemC model also comes at the exact same time, but they all cause the UVM reporting to say 0 time, I'm guessing because the SystemC never advances the simulation time (purely event driven), while the SV-side keeps chugging along.  Functionally there is no issue, but the reports are extremely confusing:

# KERNEL: UVM_INFO @ 0.000150 ms | uvm_test_top.env.PlbSb | SCOREBOARD | Act Txn FIFO Written (# 0): Op:PLB_READ_MEM - addr:0 - data:0xf477a934 - CS_sel:0
# UVM_INFO @ 0.000000 ms | uvm_test_top.env.plb_hub | plb_socket_hub | Sending exp transaction to SB...
# KERNEL: UVM_INFO @ 0.000000 ms | uvm_test_top.env.PlbSb | SCOREBOARD | Exp Txn FIFO Written (# 0): Op:PLB_READ_MEM - addr:0 - data:0xf477a934 - CS_sel:0

Does anyone understand how the "simulation time" thread(s) are handled between SV and SC?  It appears they both have their own simulation time, and they are completely independent.  Thoughts?

 

 

This is the run_phase of a component which generated the above prints.  As soon as it returns from the b_transport to the SystemC model, all UVM prints have a time of 0.  it's like it "snagged" the simulation time from the SystemC model, and is using that now.

    forever begin
      fifo.get(txn); // receive a transaction from agent
      `uvm_info(report_id, $sformatf("Got an input txn: %0s", txn.convert2string()), UVM_DEBUG)
      out.b_transport(txn,delay); // Returning from here... UVM thinks the sim time is 0 ns!  ack...
      t_copy = plb_transaction::type_id::create("t_copy");
      t_copy.copy(txn);
      `uvm_info(report_id, "Sending exp transaction to SB...", UVM_DEBUG)
      sb_out.write(t_copy); // broadcast expected transaction
    end

[apfitch]

I think this is a question for the simulator vendor. There's no standardisation of mixed language simulation in the SC or SV standards.

 

kind regards

Alan

[c4brian]

Thanks Alan!