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The Open SystemC Initiative and The Open Core Protocol International Partnership Join Forces To Target TLM Layer Standardization
Partnership Aims To Ensure An Interoperable Modeling
Infrastructure While Eliminating Redundant Effort and Conflicts
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 31, 2004—
The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) and Open Core Protocol
International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced they are joining
forces to work toward the common goal of an interoperable modeling
infrastructure for Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) with SystemC. This
partnership was formed in response to the growing numbers of SystemC
users moving to TLM and the need for standardization of the language
and the mechanisms needed to support successful TLM.
OSCI is dedicated to the development and promotion of SystemC, a
C++ based class library for high-level electronic system design.
OCP-IP is dedicated to making a common standard for intellectual
property (IP) core interfaces that facilitate "plug and play"
System-on-Chip (SoC) design. OCP-IP has chosen SystemC as a leading
platform for delivering transaction-level models of OCP-IP based
communication channels. At the same time, the Transaction-Level
Modeling Working Group of OSCI is defining an API for
transaction-level communication for standardization.
The two organizations have entered into this partnership to ensure
that the OCP-IP transaction-level models can be built in the future on
top of the standard OSCI APIs. By proactively working together, the
two organizations can deliver an optimized solution and eliminate the
emergence of two competing standards. OSCI plans to provide generic
TLM transport functionality, while OCP-IP plans to use this to
implement models of their specific communication channels.
The OSCI TLM working group effort has attracted a great deal of
attention, drawing it's 52 members from organizations such as ARM,
Coware, Cadence Design Systems, Calypto Design Systems, Eklectic Ally,
Forte Design Systems, Fujitsu, Mentor Graphics, NEC, Philips, Summit
Design, and the University of Tubengen.
"TLM has emerged as a key enabling methodology for raising the
level of abstraction and breaking the simulation performance barrier,"
said Guido Arnout, President of OSCI. "With SystemC, OSCI has
delivered an industry-accepted standard language and a platform for
system level modeling. Now, together with OCP-IP, we are layering on
top of that an infrastructure and mechanisms for TLM to better serve
the evolving needs of our users."
The TLM Working Group will have as its first deliverable a set of
definitions and an agreed upon taxonomy for the TLM levels and
methodologies. Development of this document is underway within the
working group. The working group will also define a set of APIs and
the reference implementation of classes that implement these APIs. For
the underlying TLM transport, a transport API will be developed to
support all the layers.
"OCP-IP sees transaction-level modeling as very important in
enabling efficient development of SOCs using the Open Core Protocol.
OCP 2.0 compliant TLMs have been shipping since last December with
thousands of copies of earlier versions shipped over the last year; we
are now approaching nearly 10,000 downloads of the OCP-IP white paper
on SystemC TLM," said Ian Mackintosh, President of OCP-IP. "OCP-IP has
a proven track record in developing, shipping, and supporting
high-quality TLMs, and it is our goal to contribute to the development
of an industry-standard TLM API and library."
For OSCI membership information or to learn more about SystemC and
its TLM working group, visit the website at www.systemc.org.
About OCP-IP
The OCP International Partnership Association, Inc. (OCP-IP) was
announced in December 2001 to promote and support the open core
protocol (OCP) as the complete socket standard that ensures rapid
creation and integration of interoperable virtual components. OCP-IP's
Governing Steering Committee participants are: Nokia, Texas
Instruments, STMicroelectronics, United Microelectronics Corporation,
Toshiba Semiconductor Group (including Toshiba America TAEC), Sonics
and other industry leading companies. OCP-IP is a non-profit
corporation delivering the first fully supported, openly licensed
core-centric protocol that comprehensively fulfills system-level
integration requirements. The OCP facilitates IP core reusability and
reduces design time and risk, along with manufacturing costs for SOC
designs. VSIA endorses the OCP socket, and OCP-IP is an Adoption Group
of the VSI Alliance. For additional background and membership
information, visit www.ocpip.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 industry standard for system-level design and
verification. The SystemC language and its prototype reference
implementation as a C++ class library can be downloaded at
www.systemc.org.
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Contact:
ThinkBold Corporate Communications, LLC
Francine Bacchini, 408-839-8153
francine@thinkbold.com
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