This book is the latest contribution to the Chip Design Languages series and it consists of selected papers presented at the Forum on Specifications and Design Languages (FDL'07), in September 2007. The book represents the state-of-the-art in research and practice, and it identifies new research directions. It highlights the role of specification and modelling languages, and presents practical experiences with specification and modelling languages

FDL is the most important European and, probably, worldwide forum to present research results, to exchange experiences, and to learn about new trends in the application of specification and design languages and the associated design and modeling methods and tools for complex, heterogeneous HW/SW embedded systems. FDL'07 was the tenth of a series of successful events held all around Europe. FDL'07 was held in Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia, Spain. The high number of submissions to the conference this year allowed the Program Committee to prepare a high quality conference program. Specification and Design Languages for Heterogeneous HW/SW Embedded Systems includes a selection of the most relevant contributions based on the review made by the program committee members and the quality of the contents of the presentation at the conference. In many cases, the authors have improved the original content with additional technical information. The papers cover the most important aspects in system modeling and specification, an essential area in Embedded Systems design.

The objective of Specification and Design Languages for Heterogeneous HW/SW Embedded Systems is to serve as a reference text for researchers and designers interested in the extension and improvement of the application of design and verification languages in the area of Embedded Systems.

Unique collection of selected papers from FDL'07 Improved version of papers from FDL'07 Latest research results in C/C++ Based System Design Latest research results in Analog, Mixed-Signal, and Heterogeneous System Design Latest research results in UML-Based System Specification and Design Latest research results in Formalisms for Property-Driven Design

Inhalt
C/C++ Based System Design.- How Different Are Esterel and SystemC.- Timed Asynchronous Circuits Modeling and Validation Using SystemC.- On Construction of Cycle Approximate Bus TLMs.- Combinatorial Dependencies in Transaction Level Models.- An Integrated SystemC Debugging Environment.- Measuring the Quality of a SystemC Testbench by Using Code Coverage Techniques.- SystemC-Based Simulation of the MICAS Architecture.- Analog, Mixed-Signal, and Heterogeneous System Design.- Heterogeneous Specification with HetSC and SystemC-AMS: Widening the Support of MoCs in SystemC.- An Extension to VHDL-AMS for AMS Systems with Partial Differential Equations.- Mixed-Level Modeling Using Configurable MOS Transistor Models.- UML-Based System Specification and Design.- Modeling AADL Data Communications with UML MARTE.- Software Real-Time Resource Modeling.- Model Transformations from a Data Parallel Formalism Towards Synchronous Languages.- UML and SystemC A Comparison and Mapping Rules for Automatic Code Generation.- An Enhanced SystemC UML Profile for Modeling at Transaction-Level.- SC2 StateCharts to SystemC: Automatic Executable Models Generation.- Formalisms for Property-Driven Design.- Asynchronous On-Line Monitoring of Logical and Temporal Assertions.- Transactor-Based Formal Verification of Real-Time Embedded Systems.- A Case-Study in Property-Based Synthesis: Generating a Cache Controller from a Property-Set.