SystemC-AMS support

AFAIK, SystemC AMS is not officially supported by Cadence Incisive. The good news is that SystemC AMS is fully build on top of SystemC, which is supported in Incisive.This means you can compile the proof-of-concept (PoC) implementation using the Cadence SystemC header files.

There are some minor tweaks necessary in the PoC since the release and version numbering used in Cadence SystemC is not compatible with the Accellera SystemC PoC, so the SystemC AMS kernel needs to be made aware of this. Af this, you can either use irun or use the Cadence gcc and include paths to compile the SystemC AMS library and your project.

Note that the SystemC AMS PoC does not contain any additional instrumentation so that Incisive or SimVision can trace or debug the TDF, LSF or ELN signals which are commonly used in SystemC AMS models. You can look in the Cadence SystemC documentation how to add some of this instrumentation. Nevertheless, if you use the regular sc_trace or sca_trace concepts, you can generate the regular VCD or tabular tracefile formats suppored by SystemC-AMS.

Conclusion: With some minor tweaks we can run SystemC AMS in Incisive, but Cadence specific tracing and debugging of SystemC AMS specific signal is not supported out-of-the-box. I would expect that Cadence is willing to study and support this in one of the future releases.