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OSCI Completes First Analog/Mixed-Signal Standard for SystemC-based Design
SystemC AMS extensions enrich ESL design methodologies for mixed-signal applications
DATE CONFERENCE - DRESDEN, Germany -- March 8, 2010 -- The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC(tm) as an industry-standard language for electronic system-level (ESL) design, today released the SystemC Analog/Mixed-signal (AMS) extensions language standard, AMS 1.0. The AMS 1.0 standard is the first modeling language targeting system-level design and verification to describe analog/mixed-signal ... More »
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ESL - where we're at and where we're going
Gary Smith of GarySmithEDA presented a snapshot of the status and direction of electronic system level design (ESL) methodology at the recent Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) SystemC day at the Design and Verification Conference (DVCon 2010) in San Jose, California. He talked about the progress of ESL, its five high value applications, market sizing and concluded with some comments about its ability to satisfy the needs of the embedded system software developer. |
SCDsource 09 Mar 2010 |
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OSCI Completes First Analog/Mixed-Signal Standard
Designed for use with IEEE Std. 1666-2005, the AMS language standardizes new class libraries, layered on top of the SystemC standard, featuring specialized AMS system-level design and modeling methods. The AMS language reference manual (LRM) introduces new execution semantics for efficient simulation of discrete- and continuous-time behavior, and incorporates updates from the public review conducted in early 2009... |
Gabe on EDA 08 Mar 2010 |
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Consortium to develop smart local grid management SoC/SiP and infrastructure concept
The planned deliverables include...A toolkit for modeling and analyzing smart energy grids at various levels of abstraction, written in SystemC, a C++ class library. This includes functional models of a local energy grid consisting of energy-consuming units and a decentralized wind turbine... |
SCDsource 08 Mar 2010 |
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Open SystemC Initiative releases analog/mixed-signal extensions standard
AMS 1.0 offers three different formalisms for modeling AMS blocks: Electrical Linear Networks (ELN), Linear Signal Flow (LSF), and Timed Data Flow (TDF). The first method, ELN, is what the working group calls a "conservative" model: that is, such models use differential equations that preserve Kirkhoff's Laws at a node level... |
EDN 08 Mar 2010 |
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Irrational Exuberance Meets High-Level Design
Irrational exuberance is running rampant. Design managers believe all their systems engineers and software programmers are going to be able to drive the hardware design process from a high-level description. |
Chip DesignJon McDonald Blog 25 Feb 2010 |
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DVCon SystemC Day Quandry: Need for Third Party TLM IP
Sometimes in the most optimistic of discussions, there is an "elephant in the room" that people don't say much about. Such was the case at the DVCon SystemC Day Feb. 22, where despite strong attendance and upbeat presentations, there was only a small amount of discussion about the need for third-party transaction level modeling (TLM) IP. |
Richard Goering Blog/Cadence Community Post 24 Feb 2010 |
