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1. Downloading the source code

Register at http://www.accellera.org and then download systemc-2.3.0.tgz from the Accellera SystemC standards download page

2. Uncompressing the source code tarballs

This will uncompress the source of SystemC in directory systemc-2.3.0

3. Configuring SystemC

To handle threads, SystemC relies on QuickThreads, a fast implementation of user's threads. QuickThreads speeds-up threads switching compared to the slower kernel POSIX threads and thus considerably improves overall simulation performance. To configure the SystemC building process with the built-in QuickThreads (recommended), do the following at the command prompt: However, if you intend to instrument your simulator (e.g. with valgrind) to debug the simulator memory leaks, bad memory accesses, pointers, and uninitialized memory reads, you should use the slower kernel POSIX threads. To configure the SystemC building process with the kernel POSIX threads, do the following at the command prompt:

5. Compiling and installing SystemC

To compile SystemC, do the following at the command prompt:

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