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SystemC Verification Library (Rel. 1.0p1)
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This is the first production release of the SystemC 2.0.1 Verification Library
(SCV), version 1.0.
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IMPORTANT
1. This is the production release of SCV 1.0. This release contains an
implementation of the verfication extensions for SystemC 2.0.1. Examples
are provided in the examples directory.
2. This release is supported on the following platforms for which it has
been well tested:
o Sun Solaris 2.7 and 2.8 with GNU C++ compiler version gcc-2.95.2
Sun Solaris 2.7 and 2.8 with GNU C++ compiler version gcc-3.2
Sun Solaris 2.7 and 2.8 with Forte 7 compiler version 5.4
o Linux Redhat 7.1 with GNU C++ compiler version gcc-2.96-85 or gcc-2.95.3
Linux Redhat 7.2 with GNU C++ compiler version gcc-2.96-98 or gcc-2.95.3
o HP-UX 11.00 with HP C++ compiler version A.03.39
HP-UX 11.00 with GNU C++ compiler version gcc-3.2
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Licensing and Copyright
See the separate LICENSE file to determine your rights
and responsiblities for using SystemC.
User Documentation
You can find documentation for this release in the docs directory;
here is a brief description of each document:
scv/date03a2.pdf -- A tutorial introduction to SCV, presented at DATE
2003.
scv/intro_slides.pdf -- A set of slides introducing SCV.
scv/scv_random_white_paper4.pdf -- An introduction to SCV's facilities
for constrained randomization.
scv/scvref/vwg_1_0e.pdf -- The latest version of the SCV specification.
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 SCV.
Examples
You can find SCV examples in the examples directory; the examples
README (examples/README in the distribution, examples/scv/README
in an installation) contains a brief description of each of the
examples.
Additional information
SystemC has a web site at
http://www.systemc.org
The following slide show with audio introduces the SCV
library and provides an overview of its capabilities:
http://www.systemc.org/projects/sitedocs/document/VWG1/
Several of the examples are from the SCV engineering notebook. To
view the notebook itself, which contains additional explanatory text,
use this link:
http://www.testbuilder.net/tbsc_notebook/cve_tut/scv_eng_nb/index.thtml
Discussion forum: http://www.systemc.org/login_forum.html
You can post bugs and suggestions of general interest to the forum.
When reporting bugs please specify the following information (if
applicable):
1) SystemC version
2) platform, compiler, flags
3) description of the problem
4) steps to reproduce the problem
5) compile/runtime warnings and errors
6) code sample, not more than 100 lines to demonstrate the problem
Note: All bugs will only be tested against the latest publicly available
version of the product.
Note: All C++ compilers that SystemC supports have bugs of different
degree of severity. We cannot fix those bugs. Please report them to
the compiler vendor.
See more files for this project here