Integrating SystemC TLM into FMI 3.0 Co-Simulations with an Open-Source Approach
This addresses integration challenges for cyber-physical systems, particularly in automotive applications, by enabling standardized cross-domain co-simulation, though it is incremental as it builds on existing FMI standards.
This paper tackled the problem of integrating SystemC TLM models into FMI-based co-simulations by presenting an open-source methodology that encapsulates SystemC TLM components as FMI 3.0 FMUs, demonstrating feasibility through case studies.
The growing complexity of cyber-physical systems, particularly in automotive applications, has increased the demand for efficient modeling and cross-domain co-simulation techniques. While SystemC Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM) enables effective hardware/software co-design, its limited interoperability with models from other engineering domains poses integration challenges. This paper presents a fully open-source methodology for integrating SystemC TLM models into Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI)-based co-simulation workflows. By encapsulating SystemC TLM components as FMI 3.0 Co Simulation Functional Mock-up Units (FMUs), the proposed approach facilitates seamless, standardized integration across heterogeneous simulation environments. We introduce a lightweight open-source toolchain, address key technical challenges such as time synchronization and data exchange, and demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the integration through representative case studies.