Learn SystemC - Concurrency

本文为英文翻译，原文地址：Concurrency

Concurrency

SystemC使用仿真过程建模并发操作，并非真实的并发运行。
当有多个仿真过程进行并发仿真，在某一时刻只有一个仿真过程在运行。
当然，仿真时间在所有的仿真过程完成当前任务前不会变化，也就是可以认为：这些仿真过程在相同的仿真时间是并行运行的。这一点和一些其他编程语言不同，例如Go等，可以真正并行操作。

下面看下示例以理解仿真并行：

// Learn with Examples, 2020, MIT license
#include <systemc>
using namespace sc_core;

SC_MODULE(CONCURRENCY) {
  SC_CTOR(CONCURRENCY) { // constructor
    SC_THREAD(thread1); // register thread1
    SC_THREAD(thread2); // register thread2
  }
  void thread1() {
    while(true) { // infinite loop
      std::cout << sc_time_stamp() << ": thread1" << std::endl;
      wait(2, SC_SEC); // 2秒（仿真时间）后再次触发
    }
  }
  void thread2() {
    while(true) {
      std::cout << "\t" << sc_time_stamp() << ": thread2" << std::endl;
      wait(3, SC_SEC); // 3秒（仿真时间）后再次触发
    }
  }
};

int sc_main(int, char*[]) {
  CONCURRENCY concur("concur"); // define an object
  sc_start(10, SC_SEC); // run simulation for 10 seconds
  return 0;
}

0 s: thread1 # thread1 is running
        0 s: thread2 # thread2 is running
2 s: thread1 # thread1 is running
        3 s: thread2 # thread2 is running
4 s: thread1 # thread1 is running
        6 s: thread2 # thread2 is running
6 s: thread1 # thread1 is running
8 s: thread1 # thread1 is running
        9 s: thread2 # thread2 is running
# simulation ends after 10 simulated seconds