SCLive 3.0 Release Candidate is Out

The official release candidate is ready for download in the “Download” section. Please be patient with the file server, if you can’t get the file right away please try again later.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated, you can contact me at davidcabanis AT gmail DOT com .

Have fun with the release candidate, I’m planing the final release by the end of October if all goes well.

David Cabanis.

Creating a Persistant SCLive 3.0 on a USB Flash Drive

Why do we want to do that?

Persistant installations of liveCD gives us the best of both worlds. You are able to boot SCLive from most computers (LiveCD feature) but you can also modify the data as well as the system files.

This is almost like a hard drive install with the added benefit to be able to use it on most machine without any additional installation required.

In the context of SCLive, any modification that you will make to the existing projects will be safely kept on the USB Flash Drive.

The following video details one of the many ways to achieve a persistant installation.

Et Voila!

David Cabanis

Powering on-off SCLive 3.0

This short video is for the Linux novices. It  illustrates the boot options and boot sequence as well as the login steps required to start SCLive 3.0

Et voila!

David Cabanis

First tour of the SCLive 3.0 user interface

This is a brief video illustrating the different applications accessible via the user interface. More sofisticated applications such as VHDL, Verilog and SystemC simulator are accessed through terminal commands and will be covered in greater depth in the next video presentations.

Voila!

David Cabanis

Teaser SCLive 3.0 Demo

Here is a very short proof of concept demo of SCLive 3.0. This covers a SystemC compilation, simulation and the waveform output.

More examples on their way.

Enjoy,
David Cabanis.

SCLive 3.0 Release Candidate Screenshots

Here are a few screenshots of the new SCLive 3.0.

Boot options

Login screen

Introduction screen

SystemC GDB Gtkwave Kate

SystemC with the IDE Geany

VHDL Gtkwave

Verilog Gtkwave

Additional modules for SCLive

SCLive running as a virtual machine

SCLive 3.0 RC1 is coming

The long awaited version 3.0 of SCLive is almost ready for release.

Main features are:

- Latest SystemC kernel

- Latest SCV Library

- Latest TLM Libraries

- Verilog simulator

- VHDL Simulator

- Updated wafeform viewer

- New set of tutorials

- Customization scripts

- The ability to use it as a persistent distribution on a USB stick (script provided)

- More responsive with higher compression

- Newer Linux kernel (better detection of hardware)

- New KDE desktop replacing the XFCE

- Fixed compilaiton scripts to run all the examples included inside the SystemC/TLM/SCV  libraries

I will be releasing a few tutorial videos in the coming weeks ahead of the release of SCLive 3.0.

Voila!

David Cabanis.

SCLive 2.0 Released

The SystemC Live CD version 2.0 has been released today. It can be downloaded directly from HERE and HERE

This new version features:

1. SystemC 2.2 beta
2. SCV 1.0
3. TLM 1.0
4. SystemC / C++ tutorial (Esperan)
5. gcc g++ 3.4.6
6. gdb 6.3
7. ddd 3.3.9
8. gtkwave 1.3.79
9. vim 7.0
10. geany 0.7.1
11. opera 9.02
12. Beep Media Player 0.9.7
13. xpdf
14. xfce4 4.2.3.2
15. slapt-get 0.9.11b
16. gslapt 0.3.1.2

The file size is 137MB and can be burnt onto various media such as: Memory stick (USB), Mini CD, CD-R, CD-RW.

You will find SCLive 2.0 to be a more integrated, complete and slicker distribution with tools that will facilitate SystemC development (gdb, ddd, vim) and user customisations (gslapt, slap-get).

The zip file also contains pre-prepared configuration files to run SCLive 2.0 painlessly inside the VMWare player software.

Have a lot of fun with SCLive and don’t hesitate to send me your comments (Francais/ English) at: systemclive@googlemail.com

David Cabanis