SystemC Libraries & Projects
This page gives an overview of open-source SystemC libraries and projects. Please let us know if a project or library is missing or needs update.
Models
This is a list of SystemC models for use in virtual platforms:
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA) | SystemC TLM2.0-compatible virtual platform | NVIDIA Open NVDLA License and Agreement v1.0 |
| ParaNut Processor | Customizable, highly scalable, and RISC-V compatible processor architecture for FPGA-based systems | BSD-2-Clause |
| Virtual Components Modeling Library (VCML) Models | The VCML productivity library contains many component models (ARM, RISC-V, Virtio, ...) | Apache-2.0 |
| Virtual Components Modeling Library (VCML) NVDLA Model | VCML integration of the NVDLA model | Apache-2.0 |
| VPV-Peripherals | Library of example SystemC/TLM peripherals for various SoCs based on the SCC library | Apache-2.0 |
| DRAMSys | SystemC TLM-AT Model of DRAM Subsystems (DDR, LPDDR, HBM, ...) | BSD |
Productivity and Utility Libraries
The Productivity and utility libraries contain common resources, building blocks, and utilities that can be used for creation of SystemC-based virtual platforms, supporting different use cases such as software development, Architecture exploration, and High-Level Synthesis.
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| High-Level Synthesis Libs (HLSLibs) | Repository for the unlimited length integer and fixed-point AC types usable with SystemC, plus math, DSP and ML building blocks, as well as SystemC MatchLib | Apache-2.0 |
| sc-during | Parallel programming on top of SystemC/TLM | LGPLv2.1 |
| SingleSource library | The SingleSource library consists of communication channels which implements functional interfaces similar to TLM 1.0. The channels support cycle accurate mode for simulation and synthesis (the implementation complies with SystemC synthesizable standard). The channels also have a fast simulation mode to be used in architecture exploration, performance evaluation and virtual prototyping. There are multiple examples of channels usage given here | Apache-2.0 |
| SystemC-Components (SCC) | A light weight productivity library for SystemC and TLM 2.0 based modeling tasks using C++11 provides common functions, components and modules often needed in SystemC based models | Apache-2.0 |
| Virtual Components Modeling Library (VCML) | Sockets, Tracing, Registers, GDB server, Logging, Session Protocol, Component Models, Network backends, TLM2.0 protocols | Apache-2.0 |
| GUI-VP Kit | Interactive Graphical Application Development Kit, providing a quick-to-create and easy-to-use platform for experimenting with Linux on the RISC-V VP++ | Not specified |
Virtual Platforms and Virtual Prototypes
This is a list of open-source Virtual Platforms and Virtual Prototypes (VPs):
| Name | Description | OS / Workloads | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| RISC-V VP++ | RISC-V VP++ is an open-source, RISC-V virtual prototype based on SystemC TLM | Bare-metal, RTOS, or Linux with interactive graphical applications that are network-capable | MIT |
| ARMv8 Virtual Platform (AVP64) | OCX QEMU-based ARMv8 multi-core VP | CoreMark, Dhrystone, Linux, Xen hypervisor | MIT |
| GreenSocs A53 VP | ARM Cortex A53 multi-core VP (registration required) | Linux | GPLv2 |
| GreenSocs N1 VP | ARM Neoverse N1 multi-core VP (registration required) | Linux | GPLv2 |
| GreenSocs RISC-V64 VP | 64-bit RISC-V multi-core VP (registration required) | Linux | GPLv2 |
| HIFIVE1-VP | DBT-RISE-based RISC-V VP | FreeRTOS | BSD-3-Clause |
| OpenRISC 1000 Multicore VP (OR1KMVP) | OR1KISS-based multi-core OpenRISC1000 VP | Linux | Apache-2.0 |
| SymEx-VP | A concolic testing framework for RISC-V embedded software with support for SystemC peripherals. | RIOT, Zephyr, NuttX, Zig | GPLv3 |
| TGC-VP | The Scale4Edge ecosystem RISC-V VP | FreeRTOS | Apache-2.0 |
| TLMBoy | Game Boy VP | Apache-2.0 | |
| Xilinx Zynq-7000 | QEMU based Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC connected SystemC TLM 2.0 | MIT |
Compilers, parsers, and source-to-source transformations
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Recoding Infrastructure for SystemC (RISC) | Framework for analysis and agressive parallel simulation of embedded system models described in SystemC | BSD-3-Clause |
| SystemC compiler | Compiler which translates synthesizable SystemC design to synthesizable SystemVerilog design | Apache-2.0 |
| systemc-clang | Static analysis framework for RTL and TLM SystemC models including a HDL synthesis plugin that generates Verilog | systemc-clang |
| Verilator | Compiler and simulator which translates Verilog/SystemVerilog to SystemC | LGPLv3 |
Simulators
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| SystemC | SystemC Reference Implementation | Apache-2.0 |
| SystemC-AMS | SystemC-AMS Proof-of-concept implementation | Apache-2.0 |
Python Integration
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| PySysC | A Python package to make SystemC usable from Python. It supports composition of a SystemC/TLM model as well as running the simulation. | Apache-2.0 |
Verification
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Assertions | These SystemC assertions are intended to be used in simulation to check design correctness. These assertions are translated into equivalent SystemVerilog assertions (SVA) using the SystemC compiler | Apache-2.0 |
| CRAVE | Constrained RAndom Verification Environment | Apache-2.0 |
| FC4SC | Functional Coverage for SystemC | Apache-2.0 |
| UVM-Connect | UVM-based library that provides TLM1 and TLM2 connectivity and object passing between SystemC and SystemVerilog UVM models and components | Apache-2.0 |
| UVM-ML | Universal Verification Methodology Multi-Language (UVM-ML) Open Architecture supporting UVM-SV, UVM-e, and UVM-SC | Apache-2.0 |
| UVM-SystemC | Accellera implementation and standard of the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) in SystemC | Apache-2.0 |