The Mars MX1 FPGA module is equipped with two fully EtherCAT compatible Fast Ethernet PHYs and a fast DDR2 SDRAM. Therefore it is predisposed for SoPC systems with a soft-core processor and real-time Ethernet access.

Mars MX1 is built around Xilinx’s most recent low-cost FPGA, the Spartan-6 LX. The module comes in two standard configurations which are both fitted with a 128MB DDR2 SDRAM, 16MB SPI-Flash and a Real-Time-Clock. The modules are operated from a single 3.3V supply and provide 108 user I/Os, which can also be configured as 54 differential pairs.

Since the form factor of the module is SO-DIMM (68 x 30 mm) space and cost saving standard connectors can be used to easily integrate the MX1 into the target system.

Please visit www.enclustra.com/marsmx1 for details.

WHO: The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC™ as an industry-standard language for electronic system-level (ESL) design, announces the next North American SystemC User’s Group (NASCUG) meeting. Co-located with the 2010 Design Automation Conference (DAC), the event is free to industry professionals and the media with advance registration at: www.mod-marketing.com/osci/.

WHAT/WHEN: NASCUG XIII meeting, Sunday, June 13, beginning 2:30pm. The event is sponsored by ARM Ltd.; Cadence Design Systems, Inc.; Forte Design Systems; Mentor Graphics Corporation; Synopsys, Inc.; and XtremeEDA Corporation. For agenda and complete details, go to www.nascug.org.

WHERE:  The meeting will be held in Ballroom A of the Anaheim Hilton, Anaheim, California.

NASCUG XIII AGENDA:

2:30pm – 3:00pm         Registration
3:00pm – 3:10pm         Welcome and Agenda
3:10pm – 3:30pm         OSCI Technical Working Group Update
3:30pm – 5:45pm         Technical Presentations

• “How to Create Adaptors Between Modeling Abstraction Levels” Ashwani Singh, CircuitSutra Technologies Pvt Ltd
• “Virtual Development Platforms – What and How Much to Model?” Bill Bunton, LSI Networking Components Division
• “Modeling Communication Systems Using the SystemC AMS Building Block Library” Jiong Ou, Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology
• “New Features for Process Control in SystemC” John Aynsley, Doulos Ltd.
• “Generating Workload Models from TLM-2.0 Based Virtual Platforms for Efficient Architecture Performance Analysis” Tim Kogel, Synopsys, Inc.

6:00pm – 7:30pm DAC 2010 Kick-off Reception – Anaheim Hilton, Pacific Ballroom – The DAC Executive Committee and the EDA Consortium invite NASCUG XIII attendees to the DAC kick-off reception. Register and find out more: www2.dac.com/kick_off+reception.aspx

NASCUG/SystemC Technical Videos Now Available

Videos of the NASCUG XIII meeting will be available in July at media.systemc.org. The site also contains archived video of recent events including the first annual SystemC Day held earlier this year, as well as technical tutorials on the OSCI TLM-2.0 standard.

About SystemC and OSCI

The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) is an independent, not-for-profit association composed of a broad range of organizations dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an open industry standard for system-level modeling, design and verification. SystemC is a language built in C++ that spans from concept to implementation in hardware and software. For further information about SystemC and OSCI, visit www.systemc.org.