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\(SystemC^{\mathbb{FL}}\) is the formalisation of a reasonable subset of SystemC based on classical process algebras. During the last few years, \(SystemC^{\mathbb{FL}}\) has been successfully used to give formal specifications of SystemC designs. For formal analysis purposes, so far, users have been required to transform manually their SystemC codes into corresponding \(SystemC^{\mathbb{FL}}\) specifications. To verify some desired properties of \(SystemC^{\mathbb{FL}}\) specifications using existing formal verification tools (e.g. NuSMV and SPIN), similarly, manual translations have been needed for turning \(SystemC^{\mathbb{FL}}\) specifications into corresponding terms of the input language (e.g. SMV and PROMELA) of the selected formal verification tool. Since manual transformation and translations between SystemC codes, \(SystemC^{\mathbb{FL}}\) specifications, and various formalisms are quite laborious and therefore error-prone, these translations have to be made as much automatic as possible. The first step of the research in these directions is to automate the transformation from SystemC codes to \(SystemC^{\mathbb{FL}}\) specifications. In this paper, we present SC2SCFL (an automatic translation tool), which converts SystemC codes into corresponding \(SystemC^{\mathbb{FL}}\) specifications.
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Man, K.L., Fedeli, A., Mercaldi, M., Boubekeur, M., Schellekens, M. (2007). SC2SCFL: Automated SystemC to \(SystemC^{\mathbb{FL}}\) Translation. In: Vassiliadis, S., Bereković, M., Hämäläinen, T.D. (eds) Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4599. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73625-7_6
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