Introduction to SystemC Tutorial

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Esperan 2005 1 Introduction to SystemC Tutorial SystemC is essentially a C++ library used for modeling concurrent systems in C++. Along with concurrency, SystemC provides a notion of timing as well as an event driven simulations environment. Due to it s concurrent and sequential nature, SystemC allows the description and integration of complex hardware and software components. To some extent, SystemC can be seen as a Hardware Description Language. However, unlike VHDL or Verilog, SystemC provides sophisticated mechanisms that offer high abstraction levels on components interfaces. This, in turn, facilitates the integration of systems using different abstraction levels.

This tutorial is an introduction to the use of C++ for describing hardware models. Essential constructs for the creation of SystemC models are also introduced. Note this is a …

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