| Overview |
| ======== |
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| This subfolder (/ext/systemc) is a custom redistribution of the Accellera |
| SystemC 2.3.1 library [[1]][sysc]. This distribution replaces Accellera's |
| Autoconf build system with a SCons build system, which is used by gem5. |
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| In the past it happened several times that some changes in gem5 broke the |
| SystemC coupling. Recently Accelera has changed the licence for SystemC from |
| their own licence to Apache2.0, which is compatible with gem5. However, SystemC |
| usually relies on the Boost library. The repository contains all the source |
| files from the Accellera distribution, but strips down the boost dependencies, |
| shown here:[[3]][strip]. All references to the boost library are replaced by |
| calls to the C++11 STL. This repository also contains the TLM 2.0 |
| protocol-checker from Doulos [[4]][doulos]. |
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| [sysc]: http://accellera.org/downloads/standards/systemc |
| [gem5]: http://www.gem5.org/ |
| [doulos]: https://www.doulos.com/knowhow/systemc/tlm2/base_protocol_checker/ |
| [strip]: https://github.com/tud-ccc/systemc-scons/commit/913a7451939dc4d4bd752df7081064f9f870517a |
