This year ISCUG (India SystemC User Group) is being held in Bangalore on April. As the tentative agenda says, this is for all. First half for learners (3-5 training sessions) and after lunch success stories and more discussions how SystemC can be adopted. This is being organized by CiruitSuitra.
www.iscug.in/ISCUG-2012
After TLM 2.0 standardized and SystemC 2.3 this is the first meeting in Bangalore. So there will be definitely some talk around these new concepts.
If you have good experience you can submit a paper or presentation for the same. Feb 15 is the last date!
Hope to see you there in the event.
Poseidon
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
SystemC 2.3 and 1666-2011
The much awaited SystemC 2.3 is now available for Public review.
The updated specification of SystemC (1666-2011) is also made available. Similar to its predecessor, this is also downloadable free of cost from IEEE website.
The main changes from the 1666-2008 are the number of pages increased to 638! The list of changes is already mentioned in the specification (Annex D). So it won't be good if I copy them and paste here. Still some important ones are
Dynamic Process Capabilities
These will help us to control a SC_THREAD easily.
With v2.2, all threads need to handle the reset, wait in an explicit manner. Now with added functions, a Thread can be reset in a clean way.
Event Naming
A name can be assigned to an event. This will help us in debugging to find out.
+ A number of other additions/changes to SystemC functions and classes
- sc_start(), sc_pause()
- sc_get_status()
- sc_pending_activity(), sc_time_to_pending_activity()
- sc_vector<>, sc_assemble_vector()
- set_verbosity_level(), SC_REPORT_INFO_VERB()
- sc_event_and_list, sc_event_or_list
- sc_prim_channel::async_request_update()
TLM 2.0
Now TLM 2.0 is made a standard of SystemC. Already most tools are supporting TLM 2.0. All semiconductor companies which were following their own standards are in the process of migrating to these new standards.
As I get to practice these new features, I will try to post the usecases for the important ones.
The updated specification of SystemC (1666-2011) is also made available. Similar to its predecessor, this is also downloadable free of cost from IEEE website.
The main changes from the 1666-2008 are the number of pages increased to 638! The list of changes is already mentioned in the specification (Annex D). So it won't be good if I copy them and paste here. Still some important ones are
Dynamic Process Capabilities
These will help us to control a SC_THREAD easily.
With v2.2, all threads need to handle the reset, wait in an explicit manner. Now with added functions, a Thread can be reset in a clean way.
Event Naming
A name can be assigned to an event. This will help us in debugging to find out.
+ A number of other additions/changes to SystemC functions and classes
- sc_start(), sc_pause()
- sc_get_status()
- sc_pending_activity(), sc_time_to_pending_activity()
- sc_vector<>, sc_assemble_vector()
- set_verbosity_level(), SC_REPORT_INFO_VERB()
- sc_event_and_list, sc_event_or_list
- sc_prim_channel::async_request_update()
TLM 2.0
Now TLM 2.0 is made a standard of SystemC. Already most tools are supporting TLM 2.0. All semiconductor companies which were following their own standards are in the process of migrating to these new standards.
As I get to practice these new features, I will try to post the usecases for the important ones.
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