OSCI Releases New Whitepaper to Enrich SystemC AMS Standard

An independent non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an industry-standard language for electronic system-level (ESL) design, Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), released a new whitepaper which proposes new features for the SystemC Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) Standard to further enhance mixed-signal system-level design. The whitepaper is available for download at its website.

In a press release, Eric Lish, Chairman of OSCI, said, “After the release of the SystemC AMS 1.0 Standard one year ago, we are very pleased to clearly see the adoption of these SystemC AMS extensions in the industry. Therefore I very much welcome these continued advancements of SystemC AMS to address new use cases and requirements of our industrial partners to efficiently develop mixed-signal systems using SystemC.”

The whitepaper will showcase new proposals for the SystemC AMS extensions to further expand the power of SystemC AMS for the creation of mixed-signal virtual prototypes. All the new features are fully complementary to the existing SystemC AMS 1.0 standard and can be used in combination with digitally-oriented ESL design methodologies for functional modeling, architecture exploration and virtual prototyping of embedded analog/mixed-signal systems. It will motivate the introduction of new execution semantics and language constructs to facilitate a more reactive and dynamic behavior of the Timed Data Flow (TDF (News - Alert)) model of computation, the powerful modeling style introduced by SystemC AMS Standard to abstract continuous-time behavior using discrete-time representations.

Martin Barnasconi, Chairman of OSCI's AMS Working Group, said, “With the introduction of Dynamic Timed Data Flow we will fulfill another important industry requirement to support modeling of dynamic, adaptive and reconfigurable mixed-signal systems. The whitepaper proposes some simple and elegant additions to the AMS language which will certainly contribute to the adoption of SystemC AMS in industries such as automotive, communication and semiconductors.”

OSCI was recently in news when it announced the availability of an Accurate Dynamic Random-Access Memory Model (ADM) package. The ADM is a configurable, transaction-level model for Dynamic Random-Access Memories (DRAMs).

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Edited by Rich Steeves