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North American SystemC User's Group Hosts Co-Located Meeting at DAC Sunday, June 13, Anaheim, CA

WHO: 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 (ESL) design, 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/.

WHAT/WHEN: NASCUG XIII meeting, 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.

WHERE: 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.
  
  

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:
                    www2.dac.com/kick_off+reception.aspx

NASCUG/SystemC Technical Videos Now Available
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.

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 language built in C++ that spans from concept to implementation in hardware and software. For further information about SystemC and OSCI, visit www.systemc.org.