Smart Systems Design Methodologies and Tools

This chapter presents SMAC, a structured approach for the modeling, simulation and validation of smart electronic systems, focusing mainly on the functional aspects. The SMAC platform is the result of a European Project (FP7 – SMAC: SMArt systems Co‐design) – Integrated Project (IP) of the 7th ICT Call under the Objective 3.2 “Smart components and Smart Systems integration”. A clear framework to categorize methodologies and tools, which are adopted in Smart Systems design, should distinguish between the different levels of design abstraction which includes system level, device level, and physical level. SystemC/SystemC‐AMS introduces numerous methodologies for efficient modeling and simulation of different domains. The chapter also presents preliminary results obtained by applying the SMAC platform to design and simulate the system‐level model of a limb tracking smart system to test the efficiency of the platform to a real and complex case of study.