SystemC Configuration, Control and Inspection (CCI) Library

About SystemC CCI

The Configuration, Control and Inspection (CCI) standard enables greater interoperability of SystemC models within the SystemC ecosystem. It allows tools and models to work together to provide valuable user-level capabilities. The first phase of this standard addresses model configuration. The roadmap includes checkpointing and register introspection.

The SystemC CCI Working Group addressed several key concerns while defining the 1.0 standard. Of critical importance is the ability to interact with tools for which a portable value representation has been provided, along with information about configuration parameters, including a description and flexible metadata. Among the fundamental features in the standard are avoiding name clashes with elements of the SystemC object hierarchy, looking up and accessing configuration parameters, restricting access to parameters, preloading configuration settings, callbacks for parameter creation/destruction as well as value access, traceability of parameter value updates, and support for user-defined parameter value types.

This SystemC CCI package is the reference implementation provided by the Accellera Systems Initiative and is being developed by the Accellera SystemC CCI Working Group.

In the event of discrepancies between the behavior of this implementation and statements made in the CCI 1.0 Language Reference Manual, the LRM standard shall be taken to be definitive.

Licensing and Copyright

See the separate LICENSE and NOTICE files to determine your rights and responsiblities for using SystemC.

User Documentation

The main documentation of SystemC CCI reference implementation is the CCI 1.0 Language Reference Manual. You can find additional documentation for this release in the docs directory, some of which refers to older versions.

Installation

See the separate INSTALL file that provides system information and installation instructions.

Release Notes

See the separate RELEASENOTES file that provides up-to-date information about this release of SystemC CCI.

SystemC Community

• SystemC community website
  https://accellera.org/community/systemc/

• SystemC Community discussion forum
  https://forums.accellera.org/forum/9-systemc/

• SystemC CCI discussion forum
  https://forums.accellera.org/forum/41-systemc-cci-configuration-control-inspection/

About Accellera SystemC Working Groups

Accellera hosts different SystemC Working Groups to address the various aspects of Electronic System-Level (ESL) modeling and simulation:

• SystemC Language Working Group: Working Group responsible for the definition and development of the SystemC and TLM core languages, the foundation on which all other SystemC libraries and functionality are built.

• SystemC CCI Working Group: Working Group responsible for the Configuration, Control and Inspection (CCI) extensions of SystemC, to enable tools to interact with models in order to perform activities such as setup, debug and analysis.

• SystemC AMS Working Group: Working Group responsible for the Analog/Mixed-Signal extensions of SystemC, to enable abstract modeling approaches for analog, mixed-signal and radio-frequency functionality.

• SystemC Synthesis Working Group: Working Group responsible for the synthesizable subset of SystemC to enable High-Level Synthesis (HLS).

• SystemC Verification Working Group: Working Group responsible for the verification extensions of SystemC, introducing UVM in SystemC library and the SystemC Verification library (SCV).

About Accellera Systems Initiative

Accellera Systems Initiative is an independent, not-for profit organization dedicated to create, support, promote and advance system-level design, modeling and verification standards for use by the worldwide electronics industry. The organization accelerates standards development and, as part of its ongoing partnership with the IEEE, its standards are contributed to the IEEE Standards Association for formal standardization and ongoing change control. For more information, please visit www.accellera.org. Find out more about membership. Follow @accellera on Twitter or to comment, please use #accellera. Accellera Global Sponsors are: Cadence; Mentor, A Siemens Business; and Synopsys.

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