In order to perform architectural exploration, performance analysis and optimization, early validation of software, improved productivity in hardware development and many other tasks, the industry ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) announced the SystemC Verification (SCV) standard for system-level design on Wednesday (Nov. 20). Based on Cadence Design Systems Inc.'s ...

High-level design (HLD) represents a hardware design at a more abstract level than register transfer level (RTL). A high-level synthesis (HLS) tool then can be used to produce the RTL necessary to ...

In the several years since it first arrived, the SystemC modeling platform and design language has struggled with an identity crisis. Is it for designers of bleeding-edge processors from the likes of ...

System-Level Design moderated a discussion about the future of SystemC with Thomas Alsop, corporate design solution expert at Intel; Ambar Sarkar, chief verification technologist at Paradigm Works; ...

SystemC came into being due to the engineering demands to model System-on-Chips (SoCs). SoCs require that we model both hardware and software concurrently thereby increasing the level of complexity ...

Since its debut in 2004, the current generation of high-level synthesis (HLS) tools has made tremendous progress in terms of both quality of results (QoR) and wider applicability. The success of this ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. — The SystemC language has made a vital transition from an ad hoc standards effort to a formal one, under the direction of the IEEE. Backers hope the IEEE's stamp of approval will ...

STATE takes a SystemC design as input and transforms it into a corresponding UPPAAL timed automata model. The transformation is based on a formal semantics defined for SystemC in ...

A design tool firm is offering free training in the SystemC language through its website. Forte Design Systems said its introductory course is aimed at engineers who are investigating language ...