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Welcome to the new SystemC.org website.

Registering for access

You can register for access to the site as an OSCI member employee or SystemC community participant. The following table describes the access levels for various areas of the site. For additional information on the benefits of participation, see Levels of Membership and SystemC Community.

Area OSCI Member Employees Community Participants Unregistered Users
Public areas of the site Yes Yes Yes
Download access to standards and drafts under review Yes, with login Yes, with login No
View Discussion Forum threads Yes, with login Yes, with login No
Discussion Forum participation Yes, with login Yes, with login No
Publicly available Working Group data Yes Yes Yes
Full Working Group participation Yes, with login No No

 

Logging in and out

Protected areas of the site require login to access. To log in, click the Workspace tab and enter your username and password.

To log out, click your name in the utility bar (upper right area of the screen under Workspace), and select Log Out.

If you wish to remain logged in between browser sessions, click Remember Me on this Computer when you log in. Otherwise, you will be automatically logged out after closing your browser.

Using the discussion forums

OSCI discussion forums are available for browsing by OSCI member employees and SystemC community participants. If you wish to view discussion threads, you must first register as an OSCI member employee or SystemC community participant, and then log in to the site. If you wish to post to a forum or receive forum messages via email, you must also subscribe to the desired forum. After you are subscribed, you can send email to the forum address.

To subscribe to a forum:

  1. Log in to the site.
  2. Under the Workspace area, click Forums.
  3. Click Subscribe next to a forum name.
  4. Select Regular Subscriber to receive each forum posting individually via email, or select Digest Subscriber to receive a digest of postings.
  5. Click Subscribe.

Alternatively:

  1. Log in to the site.
  2. In the utility bar (upper right area of the screen), click your name.
  3. Click My Participation.
  4. Go to Tools > My Mailing Lists and click the name of the list to which you want to subscribe.
  5. Select Regular Subscriber to receive each forum posting individually via email, or select Digest Subscriber to receive a digest of postings.
  6. Click Subscribe.

To post to a forum:

After you are subscribed to a forum, you can post messages to it by sending email to the forum's address. To locate the address:

  1. Log in and click to Forums.
  2. Click Visit List Home next to a forum name.

    The address is in the List Address field.

To unsubscribe or otherwise change your subscription options:

  1. Log in and click Forums.
  2. Click Visit List Home next to a forum name.
  3. Edit your options, and click Back to Discussion Forums.

Tips for using the forums:

  • You must send email from the same email address with which you signed up on the SystemC.org site. If the email addresses do not match, forum postings will not be accepted. You may enter an alternate address in your account as follows:

    1. Log in to the site.
    2. In the utility bar (upper right area of the screen under Workspace), click your name.
    3. Click My Account.
    4. Enter an address in the Secondary Email Address field, and click Save.

The discussion forums will accept email from either your primary or secondary email address.

  • Do not send email through a system that uses SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme). SRS will alter your email address so it will not match the address under My Account. Ask your system administrator for help setting up a standard email address that does not use SRS. Or, send email to the forum from a secondary address (described above).
  • The Announcements forum is a moderated forum. After you send email to the forum address, we will read the contents of the email and either accept or deny its delivery to the forum subscribers.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • When will a new release be available?
OSCI strives for the highest quality it can achieve in the open source implementations that it releases. OSCI is not, however, a commercial software company with software sales revenues to support a paid development staff. Our working groups consist of volunteers whose main goal is the definition of standards to enable interoperability, not the development and support of software products. Also, we prefer to avoid too-frequent releases as we have found that the extensive commercial ecosystem that exists around SystemC suffers when the baseline is moved too often. When we have new releases or draft releases, we will inform the SystemC community through the website and email announcements.
  • How do I report a bug?
If you find an issue with SystemC and you are a member of a working group, please report the issue to the group. If you are not a member of a working group, please submit the information via the Report Bugs/Errors option on the Contact Us form. We will forward it to the appropriate working group.

Occasionally, a call for review of a particular release will go out to the SystemC community. This may include a different method for reporting bugs. One example of this is the development of the TLM-2 forum, which was created for TLM-2 draft feedback.

The Report Bugs/Errors option on the Contact Us form may also be used for reporting issues with the SystemC.org website.
  • What happens with my bug report?

While we don't have a support staff to respond to every email, the members of the working group do try to consider reported bugs and, where possible, repair them in the next released version of the open source software.

  • I've forgotten my username and password. What should I do?

There is a Password Help link at the bottom of each page. Click this link, enter your email address, and click Reset Password. You will receive an email with further instructions for resetting your username and password.

  • Why didn't I receive an email to reset my username and password?

Check your "junk" or "spam" email folder for the message. Make sure admin@lists.systemc.org is on your list of accepted email addresses to keep SystemC.org email from being sent to these folders.

  • How do I edit my account information?

Log in to the site, click your name (upper right area of the screen under Workspace), and then click My Account. Make the desired account changes, then click Save.

  • Why am I no longer a member employee?

If a company does not renew its membership, employees belonging to that company will no longer have member employee access to the SystemC.org site. Those employees will be changed to community participants with site access according to that role. The username and password will remain the same.

  • What should I do if I've changed companies?

If you are no longer an employee of a member company, contact us to change to a different member company, if applicable. You must have an email address with a domain that is associated with the member company.

If your new company is not a member company, we will change you to a community participant on the site.

  • I still want to be registered on the site, but I do not want to receive email announcements or newsletters.

Log in to the site, click your name (upper right area of the screen under Workspace), and then click My Account. For the Receive Members Email option, choose "No, do NOT send general members email." When you are finished, click Save. If you later decide to receive this information, repeat these steps and choose "Yes, subscribe to the members email list and send other general announcements."

  • I no longer want to be registered on the site.

Contact us to be removed from the SystemC.org site.

Need additional help?

Contact us if you require additional help using the SystemC.org site.