Regional User Groups
SystemC User Groups Thriving
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SystemC momentum is evident around the world in the form of thriving user groups in North America, Europe, and Japan, Latin America, and recent announcements of a newly formed group in Taiwan. User groups provide a unique forum for sharing the SystemC experiences among business, research and universities, while influencing the growth and evolution of SystemC standards. Users groups operate independently of OSCI, though OSCI fully supports activities with event sponsorships, industry collaborations and open forums promoting information exchange.
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Taiwan SystemC Users Group (TSCUG) NEW!
Chair: Alan P. Su, PhD, Global Unichip Corp.
Website: http://www.stcevent.itri.org.tw/TSCUG_eDM_English_v1.htm
In 2005, Taiwan launched various ESL movements in education, training, standardization and industrialization. As part of that movement, an ESL Working Group was formed within the Taiwan SoC Consortium to raise the awareness and promote the adoption of ESL design methodologies. Recognizing the importance of SystemC to the ESL community, the ESL WG recently transformed to become the Taiwan SystemC Users Group (TSCUG), an independent user organization that will host regular open forums to further promote ESL technologies.
North American SystemC Users Group (NASCUG)
Chair: David C Black, XtremeEDA Corporation
Website: http://www.nascug.org
"I'm thrilled to see more participation for the North American SystemC Users Group (NASCUG)," said David Black of XtremeEDA Corporation., NASCUG organizer. "This year we had some of the best abstract submissions ever for the five presentations at our DAC 2009 meeting. So many more of the attendees are knowledgeable in SystemC than previous years. It is satisfying to know that North American companies have finally begun to understand the ESL vision."
European SystemC Users Group (ESCUG)
Chair: Professor Wolfgang Rosenstiel, University of Tüebingen
Website: http://www.ti.uni-tuebingen.de/escug
"SystemC is now the standard language for system-level modeling and ESL design," said Professor Wolfgang Rosenstiel of the University of Tuebingen and organizer of ESCUG. "Our European users group provides a unique forum for sharing the SystemC experience among research, business, and academia, while also giving us a voice into how SystemC grows and evolves through the standards process."
Japan SystemC Users Forum (JSCUF)
Chair: Hiroshi Imai, EDA-TC/JEITA
Website: http://eda.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/jeita/eda/
"The SystemC standard language has made ESL methodology widely used in industries," said Toshiba's Hiroshi Imai, chair of the SystemC Working Group in Japan, EDA-TC/JEITA. The TLM-2.0 standard will help broaden the use of the ESL methodology to overcome the challenges of design productivity and quality."
Latin American SystemC Users Group (LASCUG)
Chair: Guido Araujo, University of Campinas
Website: http://www.lascug.org
"Latin American groups were early adopters of SystemC from its very beginning, and the use of the language has grown considerably since then," said Professor Guido Araujo of Brazil's Computer Systems Laboratory at the University of Campinas, and organizer of the Latin America SystemC Users Group (LASCUG). "LASCUG grew up from the need of these groups to collectively share their ideas and accumulated knowledge on SystemC technologies and applications. LASCUG will allow us to increase the dissemination of SystemC in Latin America, while enabling a valuable repository of knowledge and experiences for the region."