Compared to cx , hardwarec and specc , systemc can be expected to be the standard language for hardware / software co - design and co - simulation because systemc has the great power on describing the hardware / software heterogeneous systems and it will continually develop and many virtual tools will appear under great support of many leading eda vendors . for example , cocentric systemc studio and cocentric systemc compiler are powerful tools provided now by the synopsys corporation 相对于c ~ x ， hardwarec和specc来说， systemc的优势在于，其一它本身有很强大的软件硬件描述功能，其二由于有众多公司的支持，它的描述功能不断增强，其三是与它相关的支持软件系统的不断推出，例如， synopsys公司的模拟工具cocentricsystemcstudio和硬件综合工具cocentricsystemccomplier等。
