Chapter 2 Open-Source Languages

As stated in Chap. 1, the main goal of this book is to enable ESL research based on an open-source infrastructure. In order to make it possible to readers that are not familiar with SystemC and/or ArchC to follow the model and platform descriptions presented in the remaining chapters of this book, this chapter briefly reviews the main concepts related to these two open-source languages. Moreover, ArchC will be put in practical use in Chap. 4. Nevertheless, we strongly encourage such readers to refer to the literature referenced in the following sections for a more complete specification of both languages.