Adoption of 'SystemC' expands worldwide

BANGALORE: The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an industry standard language for electronic system-level design, released a new report today confirmed the adoption of SystemC is strong and continues to grow, and that SystemC user groups in all geographies are quickly adding members and taking an active role in promoting standardization efforts.

The report, titled "SystemC users group survey data trends report, April 2007," analyzes user survey data from recent SystemC industry events to illustrate the key trends in user awareness, learning, and application of the SystemC language since it became an IEEE standard in December 2005. The report is available for download at http://www.systemc.org.

“Clearly we are seeing a surge in SystemC acceptance and usage since it became an international IEEE standard,” said CoWare’s Patrick Sheridan, OSCI executive director. “For large companies and individual users alike, SystemC is now a major and mainstream feature in electronic system level (ESL) design that provides the foundation for a worldwide ecosystem that would otherwise not be possible without a standard language.”

SystemC in 2007: User Groups Thriving Beyond the data, SystemC momentum is evident around the world in the form of thriving user groups in North America, Europe, and Japan, and recent announcements of newly formed groups in India and Latin America.

“SystemC is now the standard language for system-level modeling and ESL design,” Rosenstiel said. “Our European users group provides a unique forum for sharing the SystemC experience among research, business, and academia, while also giving us a voice into how SystemC grows and evolves through the standards process.”

“The goal of the India SystemC User Group (ISCUG) is to facilitate easy adoption of SystemC in India and help the India SystemC community to grow and leverage advantages of SystemC to the maximum extent,” said ISCUG co-founder Subodh Patil of Poseidon Systems.

He added “The first ever ICSUG meeting was attended by 45 delegates, and the group is growing with delegates form various companies like Texas Instruments, NXP Semiconductor, ARM, ST, Agere Systems, Wipro, and other companies. We are committed to make SystemC a widely accepted and used standard for system modeling and verification in India.”

In addition, an open source proof-of-concept version of SystemC library has been developed by OSCI which incorporates improvements made through the IEEE standardization process and provides full compatibility with the IEEE LRM.

CIOL Bureau