SystemC Tutorial

by John Moondanos.

SystemC Introduction Why not leverage experience of C/C++ developers for H/W & System Level Design? But C/C++ have no notion of time No event sequencing Concurrency But H/W is inherently concurrent H/W Data Types No ‘Z’ value for tri-state buses SystemC is … C++ Class Library use for Cycle-Accurate model for Software Algorithm Hardware Architecture Interface of SoC (System-on-Chip) System-level designs Executable Specification [via]

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