Working Groups
The mission of the Open SystemC Initiative is to develop, enable, and promote technology innovation, specifications, and standards that will promote and advance the SystemC ecosystem. Technical Working Groups are where this mission is realized. Representatives from member companies actively collaborate in the development of guidelines and specifications layered upon the SystemC standard.
Membership at the Corporate or Associate Corporate level is required to join a Working Group or have a vote on specifications and standards. Learn more about the different levels of membership.
Recent Achievements
Analog/Mixed-Signal
The understanding of the importance to include analog mixed-signal (AMS)
behavior in system-level design is growing. As a result, the AMS WG sees
continuing growth in members from semiconductor industries, research
institutes, and universities to address these new aspects in SystemC-based
design. The AMS WG is currently preparing a whitepaper and is creating an
AMS Language Reference Manual that will form the foundation of the SystemC
AMS extensions towards a full reference implementation. Martin Barnasconi,
AMS working group chair, underscores the growing importance and interest of
analog mixed-signal behavior based on recent contributions and participation
from the SystemC AMS community in public workshops organized in June 2007
and January 2008. The AMS WG expects to finalize and release the whitepaper
and AMS LRM in 2008.
Language
Version 2.2 of the open source proof-of-concept SystemC library eliminates
all known incompatibilities with the IEEE 1666-2005™ SystemC standard. Upon
final release of this version, the industry will have a fully ratified
standard definition of the SystemC language, and a freely-available
implementation upon which commercial, open-source, and in-house tools can be
based.
Synthesis
A synthesizable subset draft document is now available for public
review.
Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM)
Transaction-level modeling (TLM) continues to grow in importance for
architectural exploration, performance analysis, building virtual platforms
for software development, and functional verification. The recent release of the TLM-2 draft 2 by
the TLM WG is a significant step toward making interoperable
transaction-level modeling a reality. TLM-2 draft 2 incorporates feedback
from the initial draft and provides a more synergistic and comprehensive
solution that supports untimed, loosely-timed and approximately-timed
transaction-level modeling. An update from Trevor Wieman, TLM working group
chair, is available in the latest
newsletter. The kit contains an introductory presentation, a detailed
user's manual and examples to aid reviewers. The public review period
extends through January 31. Users are encouraged to provide feedback via the
TLM-2 forum.
Verification
The verification working group released SystemC Verification Library (SCV)
V21.0p2, which is compatible with SystemC V2.1v1 as well as with the SystemC
2.2 draft. Current work underway includes the gathering of requirements and
development of consensus for implementation of temporal assertion support
for SystemC.
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