( ESNUG 441 Item 7 ) -------------------------------------------- [03/09/05]
Subject: ( ESNUG 440 #6 ) Forte Decided To Support SystemC Over CynLib
> I knew that Forte had bought CynApps, but now I can not find any info on
> what happened to CynLib. I really like CynLib better than SystemC when
> I looked at both, somewhere in 2000. SystemC came up recently, and I
> found my printout of the CynLib documentation. What happened to CynLib?
>
> - Thomas Dodd
> Cypress Semiconductor
From: John Sanguinetti <jws=user domain=forteds spot calm>
Hi, John,
To respond to Thomas' question, Forte formed when CynApps and Chronology
merged in 2001. Forte decided to put its development resources into
SystemC instead of Cynlib in September 2001.
Our primary reason was that the two class libraries solved the same
problem -- providing a hardware layer of abstraction for C++. Regardless
of the relative merits of the two libraries, it is better to have a single,
standard C++ class library than to have two competing ones. Designers are
best served by having a rich set of products which support a single way of
doing design in C++, and SystemC has become that method.
SystemC has made its way to being a full standard under the oversight of
the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI). Forte is actively involved with OSCI
and is currently the leading contributor to the SystemC reference
simulator, so some of the best parts of Cynlib have been finding their
way into the OSCI SystemC implementation.
- John Sanguinetti
Forte Design Systems San Jose, CA
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