{"id":4363,"date":"2012-02-09T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techdesignforums.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2012-12-29T18:26:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T18:26:55","slug":"new-systemc-reference-simulator-open-for-public-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techdesignforums.com\/practice\/technique\/new-systemc-reference-simulator-open-for-public-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"New SystemC reference simulator open for public comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the IEEE 1666 SystemC Working Group defined the first revision to the popular standard and a separate ballot group approved it as an official IEEE standard.\u00a0 Final edits were recently completed and the standard is now available to users worldwide.\u00a0 In parallel, the Accellera Systems Initiative\u2019s SystemC Language Working Group worked to update its open-source, proof-of-concept reference simulator to incorporate improvements, extensions and enhancements made through the IEEE standardization process so that it complies with the revised standard.<\/p>\n

The revised standard defines SystemC with Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) as a single ANSI standard C++ class library for system and hardware design. TLM has become increasingly popular with design and verification engineers and proved useful for not just SystemC users, but also those working with other languages and methodologies, such as Accellera\u2019s Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) with direct support of TLM written in SystemVerilog.<\/p>\n

The Accellera Systems Initiative, newly formed from the unification of Accellera and the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), has now opened the public review process for the updated reference simulator implementation. To that end, it has made an initial review copy<\/a>\u00a0of the SystemC library v2.3 publicly available. It complies with the recently announced IEEE 1666-2011 standard.<\/p>\n

The review period provides a great opportunity for individuals and companies to view the implementation of the SystemC library first hand and gain invaluable insights into techniques to design various applications such as semiconductors, models, engineering tools and more.\u00a0 Care and attention has gone into adhering to the standard, but the review process allows the public to offer feedback on this update before it is released for production use.<\/p>\n

Accellera wants to know if there are any discrepancies versus the standard. It also wants to understand if users have issues with the installation process and documentation against supported platforms. The public review period ends on March 3, 2012.<\/p>\n

Accellera expects the resulting feedback to result in some changes to the final library.\u00a0 This release also allows SystemC users to explore changes made against the SystemC v2.2 proof-of-concept reference.\u00a0 The revision contains the following changes from v2.2:<\/p>\n