The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) announces the next North American SystemC User’s Group (NASCUG) meeting. Co-located with the 2010 Design Automation Conference (DAC), the event is free to industry professionals and the media with advance registration at: www.mod-marketing.com/osci/.

The NASCUG XIII meeting will be held Sunday, June 13, beginning 2:30pm.
The event is sponsored by ARM Ltd.; Cadence Design Systems, Inc.; Forte Design Systems; Mentor Graphics Corporation; Synopsys, Inc.; and XtremeEDA Corporation. For agenda and complete details, go to www.nascug.org. The meeting will be held in Ballroom A of the Anaheim Hilton, Anaheim, California.

NASCUG XIII AGENDA:
2:30pm - 3:00pm Registration
3:00pm - 3:10pm Welcome and Agenda
3:10pm - 3:30pm OSCI Technical Working Group Update
3:30pm - 5:45pm Technical Presentations

• “How to Create Adaptors Between Modeling Abstraction Levels”
Ashwani Singh, CircuitSutra Technologies Pvt Ltd
• “Virtual Development Platforms – What and How Much to Model?”
Bill Bunton, LSI Networking Components Division
• “Modeling Communication Systems Using the SystemC AMS Building Block Library”
Jiong Ou, Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology
• “New Features for Process Control in SystemC”
John Aynsley, Doulos Ltd.
• “Generating Workload Models from TLM-2.0 Based Virtual Platforms for
Efficient Architecture Performance Analysis”
Tim Kogel, Synopsys, Inc.

Videos of the NASCUG XIII meeting will be available in July at media.systemc.org. The site also contains archived video of recent events including the first annual SystemC Day held earlier this year, as well as technical tutorials on the OSCI TLM-2.0 standard.

6:00pm - 7:30pm DAC 2010 Kick-off Reception – Anaheim Hilton, Pacific Ballroom - The DAC Executive Committee and the EDA Consortium invite NASCUG XIII attendees to the DAC kick-off reception. Register and find out more here.