SystemC Review Notes

SystemC can be used for detailed net-level modelling, but today its main uses are:

• Architectural exploration: Making a fast and quick, high-level model of a SoC to explore performance variation against various dimensions, such as bus width and cache memory size.
• Transactional-level (TLM) models of systems, where handshaking protocols between components using hardware nets are replaced with subroutine calls between higher-level models of those components.
• Synthesis: RTL can be synthesised from from SystemC source code using High-Level Synthesis. »SystemC Synthesis