The GreenSocs^® web site provides collaboratively developed, peer reviewed, ESL Interfaces and Infrastructure.

The GreenSocs^® mission is to enable the ESL community to quickly develop models and tools that can be used together with independence of vendor (whether the vendor is of models or tools). Our scope includes everything from package management for ESL, simple IP blocks, integrations with scripting tools and of course interfaces.

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GreenSocs is the forum in which agreed ways of using ESL languages and the details of the interfaces between models, tools and the environment are determined. GreenSocs makes the results available publicly.

On top of the underlying languages and the transportation mechanisms that they provide, ESL interfaces also require

• The data packets that are passed across that transportation mechanism

• The protocol used to transmit the data.

GreenSocs is the forum for collaboratively developing both data and protocols that are required for ESL interfaces and infrastructure.

The principal benefits of GreenSocs, and the GreenSocs interfaces and infrastructure are:

• To lower infrastructure development, training and adoption costs.

• To enable higher degrees of IP reuse and interchange.

• To enable EDA companies to build tools in support of the standards.

GreenSocs aims to support and develop the SystemC Open Source community, especially in terms of the adoption of the interfaces and infrastructures that GreenSocs makes available. GreenSocs is the central repository for all open source projects that use SystemC, helping the growth of the SystemC community and encouraging the adoption of the GreenSocs interfaces and infrastructure.

GreenSocs runs the SourceForge SystemC project called the GreenSocs project. It's aims are to develop SystemC infrastructure, basic IP, patches and add on library code. All GreenSocs projects benefit from the SourceForge infrastructure.

About Mark Burton

Dr Mark Burton is the founder of GreenSocs. Mark graduated from Warwick university with a degree in computer systems engineering. He worked for some years for Inmos (now part of St microelectornics) and then moved to ACRI (The Advanced Computer Research Institute). He completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence within Education, specifically focusing on the simulation of high level collaborative learning processes. Mark then worked for ARM becoming the manager of the modeling group. At this time he was also the chair of the OSCI TLM WG. Recently Mark GreenSocs with a number of aims, notably to support the entire Electronic System Level industry to better inter-operate, but also to support research and development environments to have more contact with relevant industrial tools and techniques. Mark is currently the chair of the OCP-IP SLD WG. You can take a look at Mark's personal world here : HelenAndMark.

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