North American SystemC User Group (NASCUG) Meeting July 27 Highlights SystemC-Related Events/News During DAC

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The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI):

WHO: The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent, non-profit organization
dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an industry-standard language
for electronic system-level (ESL) design, announced its annual North American
SystemC User Group (NASCUG) meeting. Co-located with the Design Automation
Conference (DAC), the event is free to industry professionals and the media with
advance registration at: http://www.nascug.org/events/11th_agenda.html.

WHAT/WHEN: Annual NASCUG meeting, Monday, July 27, beginning 1PM. Sponsored by
ARM, Cadence, CoWare, Doulos, Forte, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Virtutech, and
XtremeEDA.

AGENDA:
1:00 - 1:30 PM Registration

1:30 - 1:35 PM Welcome, Agenda & NASCUG Introduction
Jean-François Boland, École de technologie supérieure (ETS)
University, Canada

1:35 - 1:45 PM OSCI Update
Mike Meredith, President, OSCI

1:45 - 2:45 PM Technical User Presentations

A Tool for Assertion-Based Verification of TLM Platforms
Luca Ferro, TIMA Laboratory, Grenoble, France

SystemC-AMS for the Design of Complex Analog/Mixed-Signal SoCs
Karsten Einwich, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS, Germany

Modeling a Virtual MPU
David C Black, XtremeEDA, USA

2:45 - 3:00 PM Break

3:00 - 3:15 PM Configuration, Control, Introspection (CCI) Working Group Update
Trevor Wieman, Intel, USA

3:15 - 3:55 PM Technical User Presentations

Using TLM-2.0 Extensions for Bus Locking and Snooping
John Aynsley, Doulos, UK

High-Speed Packet Router Development in SystemC
William Gnadt, Lockheed Martin MS2, USA

3:55 - 4:55 PM SystemC Live! An Interactive Town-Hall Meeting
A lively interactive forum on the state of SystemC and what lies ahead. Design experts will address user questions on system-level design and the technology standards necessary to meet their challenges today and in the future. To submit questions in advance, e-mail: osci_events@lists.systemc.org.

4:55 - 5:00 PM Meeting Close and Prize Drawing

5:00 - 6:00 PM Networking Reception

WHERE: The event will be held in conjunction with DAC 2009 at the San Francisco
Marriott, Golden Gate Room A1. For additional information and to register, visit
http://www.nascug.org/events/11th_agenda.html.

MORE OSCI DAC NEWS: OSCI will release additional news on SystemC standards
during DAC while also participating in a number of technical and industry
events. Highlights include updates from the TLM-2.0 working group on the
completion of a Library Reference Manual; SystemC community response to the new
AMS extensions; and the Synthesis working group is announcing the public release
of a synthesis subset draft. SystemC experts will also be part of a panel
discussing AMS:

Wednesday, July 29, 3PM - OSCI-sponsored AMS DAC Pavilion Panel Booth 1928
The AMS Revival: Bipolar Thinking?
http://www.dac.com/events/eventdetails.aspx?id=95-100

About SystemC and OSCI

The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) is an independent, not-for-profit association
composed of a broad range of organizations dedicated to supporting and advancing
SystemC as an open industry standard for system-level modeling, design and
verification. SystemC is a language built in C++ that spans from concept to
implementation in hardware and software. For further information about SystemC
and OSCI visit www.systemc.org.

Public Relations for OSCI
Jill Jacobs, +1-408-505-6017 (Editorial)
jill@mod-marketing.com

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