Looking for cocentric SystemC

[Guest]

cocentric SystemC

looking for cocentric SystemC

 

[Guest]

SystemC

i know SystemC is used for system verification,
but i want to know how good is compared to vhdl at synthesis.
does SystemC produce efficient designs

 

[Guest]

looking at mento and cadence products, they only offer SystemC for verification, does this mean SystemC is not efficient for synthesis of designs.

 

[kbulusu]

Hi ,
SytemC is very efficient for synthesis.. But the industry always lags in implementation of the latest SW n methodologies . They tend to implement that particular methodology or SW only after they have seen much success being reported. I have personally used SystemC and it does very decent job. The main reason why only mentor and Cadence has products is becoz they r pretty big EDA companies n can invest in use of new EDA developments. Even Synopsys has SystemC products. If you search google u can find many. Some start-ups are already offering SystemC based IP's. you can check www.systemc.org for futher info regarding ur doubts and news related to systemc and what systemC can do.

thx kbulusu.

 

[lcking]

Can you tell me which tool can synthesis the design with SystemC?

 

[crystal]

Synopsys has the tool to support SystemC..
It's called CoCentric SystemC Compiler. Besides that, there are:

-CoCentric Fixed-Point Designer - fixing all the floating points problems
-CoCentric System Studio - an environment for smooth simulation downto gate-level netlist.

 

[star123]

Re: cocentric SystemC

Other SystemC synthesis tools:
. Forte Design System: Cynthesizer
. Future Design Automation(FDA): SystemCenter
. Prosilog: Nepsys
. Tenison EDA : VTOC
. Y Explorations: eXCite

 

[Vicent Yang]

Re: cocentric SystemC

There is also another tool from Celoxca company called DK1 start from C and make synthesis for the C code.