Demo Booth At DATE Highlights University Research With SystemC; Growing Numbers of SystemC Users Gather at DATE for 7th European SystemC User's Group Meeting.

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2003 Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference

Booth Number S6

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2003

The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an open source industry standard for system-level design, today announced it will sponsor a demonstration booth in Munich at the 2003 Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference featuring the advanced research work of numerous respected and renowned European universities. Participating universities and research groups at booth number S6 include the Universita degli Studi di Verona (Italy), the Technische Universitat Chemnitz (Germany), the Technische Universitat Braunschweig, (Germany), Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (Germany), the Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (Spain), and OFFIS, an internationally renowned German research institute.

The demonstration by OFFIS will present the actual state of a synthesis tool prototype for high-level hardware synthesis of object-oriented SystemC specifications that was developed in the course of the IST FP5 research project ODETTE. The demo from the University of Cantabria presents a C++ library for profiling analysis of SystemC specifications which will enable designers to obtain guiding measurements of timing and area parameters of a final implementation of the description. The University of Tubingen will demonstrate an automated transformation of object-oriented SystemC to procedural SystemC allowing the user to avoid a manual transformation from executable and simulatable object-oriented SystemC models into synthesizable hardware descriptions. The University of Tubingen will also demonstrate an automated SystemC FX-to-INT datatype conversion. The University of Verona will demonstrate Laerte++, a SystemC testbench environment providing a functional testing procedure completely based upon a SystemC testing environment. The University of Braunschweig will provide a high speed simulation in the FlexFilm project to develop a flexible platform for high end realtime movie processing. The University of Chemnitz will demonstrate SVE, a SystemC Protocol Design Environment which is a library for SystemC-based design and verification of protocol-intensive digital systems and SoCs, such as packet-oriented on-chip communication networks.

"OSCI is very pleased to see the growth in SystemC adoption throughout Europe and among its many research universities," stated Stan Krolikoski, Ph.D., Chairman of OSCI. "It is our pleasure to play host to a number of distinguished universities and research institutes who are doing outstanding work in the development and further evolution of SystemC."

In addition to the OSCI-sponsored demo booth, SystemC users at DATE can benefit from attending the 7th ESCUG meeting featuring SystemC news and updates from OSCI and its technical working groups, as well as information on transaction-level modeling with SystemC and SystemC IP interfaces. A segment of the meeting will be devoted to such topics as "Transaction Level Modeling using SystemC", "System Design and Verification with SystemC and SCV" and "Embedded Networked Devices Design: NS SystemC timing-accurate Synchronization".

"We are glad to see a growing adoption of SystemC within both the system design community and the research community in Europe", said Dr. Wolfgang Rosenstiel with the European SystemC Users Group, and professor at the University of Tuebingen. "Over the past two years the European SystemC Users Group has grown significantly in size and in scope. This year we're pleased to offer a booth exhibiting leading SystemC research in addition to our annual European SystemC Users Group Meeting which provides first-hand news about SystemC directly from the user community"

For detailed information on the 7th ESCUG meeting, please visit http:// www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~systemc/seventh_escugm_booth.html. Further information about the language and OSCI membership is available now at www.systemc.org.

About SystemC and OSCI

The Open SystemC(TM) Initiative (OSCI) is an independent, not-for-profit organization composed of a broad range of companies, universities and individuals dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an open source industry standard for system-level design and verification. SystemC is the standard design and verification language built in C++ that spans from concept to implementation in hardware and software. The SystemC platform, that includes the SystemC specification, source code, and reference manuals, can be downloaded at www.systemc.org.

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