European SystemC User Group Meeting to be Held Dec. 1; Co-located with IP-ESC 2009 in Grenoble

Technical User Presentations Explore Virtual Platforms, Power Analysis, SoC Modeling and More

GRENOBLE, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Open SystemC Initiative:WHO: 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 (ESL) design, announced the European SystemC User Group (ESCUG) will host its twentieth meeting Dec. 1, 2009 in Grenoble, France. For the first time, the meeting will be co-located with IP-ESC 2009, a technical conference focused on intellectual property (IP) based system-on-chip (SoC) design. Event registration as well as a full agenda for ESCUG is available at www.systemc.org.

WHAT/WHEN/WHERE:

ESCUG 20 MeetingTuesday, December 1st, 2009, 15:30 – 18:30World Trade Center, Grenoble, FranceRoom MakaluRegistration and agenda: http://www.systemc.org/news/events/Co-located with the IP-ESC Conference 2009: http://www.design-reuse.com/ipesc09/

AGENDA:

Opening Remarks

OSCI Forum

OSCI General Update

Configuration, Control and Inspection Working Group Update

SystemC User’s Forum

HW/SW CoDesign Experiences Based on a Virtual Platform of FPGA Systems

Virtual Prototyping with SystemC from a User’s Perspective

SoC Modeling Abstraction Levels

Break with Refreshments

SystemC User’s Forum

Accelerating USB 3.0 Software Development with Virtual Platforms

Shortening USB 3.0 product development cycles using TLM-2.0 compliant transaction-level models

The Growing Modeling Requirements of the Aerospace Sector

Extension of SystemC Framework Towards Power Analysis: The PKtool Simulation Environment

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WHY: SystemC continues to grow in importance for architectural exploration, performance analysis, building virtual platforms for software development, and functional verification. User meetings strengthen OSCI’s mission and its dedication to providing mechanisms that allow collaboration and information exchange among members of the global ESL community.

SPONSORED BY: ARM, Cadence, CoWare, Doulos, Forte, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Virtutech, XtremeEDA

About SystemC and OSCI

The Open SystemC™ Initiative (OSCI) is an independent, not-for-profit association composed of a broad range of organizations dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an open industry standard for system-level modeling, design and verification. SystemC is a language built in C++ that spans from concept to implementation in hardware and software. For further information about SystemC and OSCI visit www.systemc.org.