Carbon SoC Designer and Model Studio

As expected more SoC tools are coming out with more options. SystemC and IP-XACT became norm of all tools

Carbon is a leading supplier of system-level tools to automatically create, validate, and deploy software models generated from Verilog and/or VHDL. Carbon models of ARM IP are industry's only 100% accurate models for use in system level modeling environments.

Carbon has officially released Carbon SoC Designer Plus 7.8 and Carbon Model Studio 5.9

Check out more in http://www.carbondesignsystems.com/CarbonModelStudio.aspx
http://www.carbondesignsystems.com/SocDesignerPlus.aspx

In near future, the tools will have common features and soon they will be inter-operable.