SAN JOSE, Calif., April 24, 2001 – Today the SCE-API consortium announced the availability of the specification for a “common emulation applications programming interface” on the Open SystemC web site at http://www.systemc.org

The SCE-API Version 1.0 document and two SystemC-based examples of its use are included in the posting.

The formation of the SCE-API consortium was publicly announced in February. The founding members of the consortium are Aptix Corporation, CoWare, IKOS Systems, Mentor Graphics Corporation, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, and TransEDA.

The groundbreaking interface allows third parties and emulation vendors to use a common interface for connecting 3^rd party tools and proprietary software solutions to all emulators that support the interface.

SCE-API Version 1.0 is based on transaction interface technology donated to the consortium by IKOS Systems. The result is a standard modeling interface for emulators which provides multiple message-passing channels between software models running on a host workstation and RTL models running in an emulator.

In addition to making the interface available through the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) the Consortium is also in discussions with Accellera, and hopes to move SCE-API under the standards organization’s umbrella soon.

Editorial Contact:

Gerard Mas

ST Microelectronics

Tel: (408) 391-8379

mgerard.mas@st.com

Standard Co-Emulation API (SCE-API) Consortium Member Contacts:

Aptix Corp.

Aidan Herbert
aidan@aptix.com

408-428-6206

CoWare Inc.

Ed Begun

ed@coware.com

408-845-7647

IKOS Systems, Inc.

Andrew Etherington
andrew@ikos.com

408-284-8533

Mentor Graphics Corporation

Brian Bailey
brian_bailey@mentorg.com

503-685-1371

Synopsys, Inc.

Kevin Kranen
kkranen@synopsys.com

650-584-4228

STMicroelectronics

Gerard Mas
gerard.mas@st.com

408-391-8379

TransEDA, Inc.

Tom Borgstrom
tom.borgstrom@transeda.com

408-335-1303