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Inside a Synthetic Simulation Platform

Recently, we introduced a synthetic simulation-only Simics target machine called QSP (Quick-Start Platform) and it's included in the latest version of Wind River Simics. The idea...

13 years 3 months ago

Got DPDK? We Can Help You!

If you’ve purchased a communications processor from Intel in the last year, there is a strong likelihood you are familiar with the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit. Intel DPDK, as...

13 years 4 months ago

Getting Code Coverage with LDRA Tools on Simics

A system development tool like Simics is rarely used completely on its own. Simics is usually brought in by companies and development teams who are already using a variety of tools...

13 years 5 months ago

Leveraging Virtual Platforms to Improve the Intel Product Lifecycle Process

An Interview with Atul Kwatra, Principal Engineer at Intel My colleague Jakob Engblom and I had the opportunity to meet with Atul Kwatra, Principal Engineer at Intel recently. Atul...

13 years 11 months ago

Why Simics Won't Run Super Mario

Emulating old computer gaming systems is a popular consumer-market application of simulation technology similar to Wind River Simics. There are a large number of emulators out...

Catching up at IDF 2011 - An Embedded Chat with Intel ECG

In case you missed it, the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) was held last week in San Francisco. The Simics team was busy at IDF with multiple Simics-related events being held. At IDF...

Stop, Think, and Tie Your Shoes Right

I was sent a link to a past TED talk about how to tie your shoes. It is worth watching, and from the discussions I have seen on Facebook around the video, it seems that most people...

Surfing the Web with Netscape 4

While looking into our old SPARC server targets for our new SPARC legacy offering, I opened up a Simics demo checkpoint that we have had around for a long time ( at least eight...

14 years 1 month ago

Kick-Starting the VxWorks 6.9 64-bit Port with Simics

Wind River just released the world's first 64-bit RTOS, Wind River VxWorks 6.9 for the 64-bit Intel x86 Architecture. This is a great achievement by the VxWorks team, and I am...

14 years 6 months ago

What I am Reading: Processor and SoC Simulation

A new book about processor and system-on-chip simulation recently appeared. Edited by Professor Rainer Leupers and Professor Olivier Temam, it features chapters from a wide...

14 years 8 months ago