Open SystemC Initiative has new, improved website

The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), today announced the launch of its new website for the SystemC community. Featuring fresh technical content, a range of free downloads, links to the activities of worldwide SystemC user groups, and user-friendly navigation, the new site furthers the organization's goal of making the worldwide SystemC community more vibrant, connected, and well informed.

8/28/2007

SAN JOSE, CALIF.- Aug. 24, 2007 - 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 design, today announced the launch of its new website for the SystemC community. Featuring fresh technical content, a range of free downloads, links to the activities of worldwide SystemC user groups, and user-friendly navigation, the new site furthers the organization's goal of making the worldwide SystemC community more vibrant, connected, and well informed. Visit the new site at:

www.systemc.org.

 

According to OSCI President, Mike Meredith, the new site will serve to strengthen ties and further open the lines of communication between all members of the SystemC community, while providing detailed technical and educational information for those interested in learning more about SystemC. "A primary responsibility of OSCI is to develop consensus within the SystemC community and to foster a healthy industry ecosystem," said Meredith. "We now have a modern, interactive website that will bring forth the best that the community has to offer in SystemC collaboration and advancement."

 

OSCI membership has risen 30% in the past year, and user groups in North America, Europe, Asia/Japan, South America, and India are thriving according to the group's recent survey, SystemC Users Group Survey Data Trends Report, April 2007, available on the website.

 

Website Features

 

New and improved features of the site are designed to enhance user experience as well as to strengthen the ties and further open the lines of communication between all members of the SystemC ecosystem.

These include:

 

SystemC Community (open to the public):

・Link to the free download of IEEE 1666-2005 Language Reference Manual

・Downloads of open source OSCI standards and publicly available drafts

・User Group Network

・OSCI and SystemC community news

・Event listings

・Newsletter (opt-in)

・Free downloads of papers and articles

・Discussion forums

 

Organizational (open to members):

・Access to technical working group drafts, documents and minutes

・Posting of SystemC related press release and media coverage

 

Participation in the technical working groups is the primary way that progress is made in the definition and advancement of the SystemC language. Organizational features of the site have been streamlined to help facilitate technical collaboration and information exchange among technical working groups, as well as OSCI members and associated groups. In addition, OSCI member news and media coverage have been restructured to provide up to date news about SystemC.

 

"The initial SystemC.org site served its purpose by acting as an information source for SystemC, but the momentum for a new website has been building for quite some time," said OSCI board member, Mark Glasser, who headed up the website effort. "With ongoing development by OSCI working groups on transaction-level modeling and other standards, the new site provides the collaborative environment that can do much to evolve SystemC innovation and standards."

 

Making the Most out of SystemC.org

 

While the new website is open and available to the public, access to some downloads and areas within the site are restricted. To get the most benefit from the site, OSCI encourages visitors to register and login as a community participant or member. Details of registration can be found at www.systemc.org.

 

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 C++ class library that supports design from concept to implementation in hardware and software. The IEEE Standards Association recently approved the standard for the SystemC library as IEEE Std. 1666-2005.

As a result of a partnership between OSCI and the IEEE, the IEEE

1666-2005 Standard SystemC Language Reference Manual (LRM) is now available free of charge on the IEEE website at http://standards.ieee.org/getieee/1666/index.html. For further information about SystemC and OSCI visit www.systemc.org.

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