Verilator has its own website (www.veripool.org), providing guidance for downloading, installing and using the tool. In particular this application note should be read in conjunction with the Verilator user guide.

SystemC is defined by IEEE standard 1666, and the standardization documents are the ultimate reference. The SystemC standard [10] is a free PDF download (a novelty for the IEEE). The open source reference implementation from OSCI includes an introductory tutorial.

The files making up the examples used in this application noted are comprehensively commented, and can be processed with Doxygen [5]. Each class, member and method's behavior, parameters and return value is described.