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Stuart Swan

Stuart Swan is a Platform Architect in the Catapult team, focusing on SoC modeling for High-Level Synthesis. Prior to Siemens EDA, Stuart worked for Qualcomm and Cadence. Stuart is co-author of the first book on SystemC, "System Design with SystemC," and was the IEEE technical chairman of the 2005 SystemC LRM. He received his BSEE from Stanford University.

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Making shift-left real: Why SystemC, MatchLib, and High-Level Synthesis are the right foundation for SoC design and verification in an age of AI
SystemC Modeling Oct 06, 2026 Stuart Swan Paper
Verifying Hardware at the Source: Why a User-Visible HLS Scheduling Contract Matters in an Age of AI-Generated Design
SystemC Modeling Aug 14, 2026 Stuart Swan Paper
MatchLib Toolkit
SystemC Modeling Jun 20, 2024 Stuart Swan Tool Kit
MatchLib Examples Kit For Accellera Synthesis
SystemC Modeling Mar 14, 2024 Stuart Swan link
NVIDIA's Use of Catapult HLS for Building ML Inference Accelerators
SystemC Modeling Nov 29, 2023 Stuart Swan link

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