SystemC training meets growing demand

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Nov 20, 2003

Summit Design is working with Willamette HDL to offer SystemC courses with its Visual Elite system-level design and verification environment to support growing demand for ESL SystemC-based solutions.

Summit Design is partnering with Willamette HDL to offer SystemC courses with its Visual Elite system-level design and verification environment to support the growing demand for ESL SystemC-based solutions.

As witnessed at this year's Design Automation Conference, the growing complexity of today's chips is driving a movement from register-transfer level (RTL) to electronic system level (ESL) design, with SystemC at the forefront of system-level language adoption.

"SystemC usage is growing rapidly and trainings and education are most critical for the support of our customers in this wave of adoption who are facing the extreme challenges of today's chip complexity.

The language-based training group at WHDL has an excellent reputation within the industry for delivering top-notch SystemC trainings", said Rami Rachamim, Director of Marketing at Summit Design.

"WHDL has a thorough understanding of SystemC and the modelling capabilities it offers for various applications".

Visual Elite provides a high performance SystemC functional and architectural modelling and analysis platform tightly integrated with HW implementation and SW development.

By providing advanced SystemC modelling and verification tools, both graphical and textual, it allows engineers to quickly capture and analyse system concepts and architectures, as well as hand them over to implementation in a unified design flow across different languages and abstraction levels.

"We have been seeing a growing number of Visual Elite users enter our training courses so we're pleased to be able to teach SystemC design methodologies using Visual Elite", said Mike Baird, President of Willamette HDL.

"Visual Elite is a very intuitive tool that can serve as an education platform for SystemC and can substantially facilitate the adoption of SystemC for System and HW engineers".

The new training is available now.