EDN

Part 2 of Cooley survey shows SystemC use declinging; SystemVerilog increasing

Hey folks, John Cooley’s posted on deepchip.com Part 2 of his IC verification census, which features data indicating that SystemC use is decreasing while SystemVerilog use is increasing and that ...
EDN

The war is over: C++ and SystemC coexist in a single flow

Since its debut in 2004, the current generation of high-level synthesis (HLS) tools has made tremendous progress in terms of both quality of results (QoR) and wider applicability. The success of this ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Framework To Control And Interact With SystemC-based Virtual Platforms Using The FMI (RWTH Aachen Univ. et al.)

A new technical paper titled “FMI Meets SystemC: A Framework for Cross-Tool Virtual Prototyping” was published by researchers at RWTH Aachen University, MachineWare and tracetronic. “As systems become ...
Electronic Design

SystemC Closes The C-To-RTL Gap

When the SystemC language appeared on the scene as a new open-source language in 1999, it caused considerable confusion among designers. What is this SystemC thing? Is it a hardware design language?
Electronic Design

Getting To A Higher Level

So they're using it for extending design and adding simple verification structures, and I think that's its sweetspot. SystemC, on the other hand, is very much focused on systems and software." A ...
Embedded

The four Rs of efficient system design

New design languages and new chips and systems mean a whole new set of design gotchas for today's developers. Once-simple tasks become difficult and, thankfully, once-difficult tasks become easy. This ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Ensure Equivalence Of Synthesizable C++/SystemC Designs Against Generated/Handwritten RTL

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a design flow in which design intent is described at a higher level of abstraction than RTL, such as in SystemC/C++ or MATLAB. HLS tools are expected to synthesize this ...