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Collborating using Simics Recording Checkpoints

One of the main themes of the Simics 4.8 release is the use of Simics to collaborate between team members, teams, and organizations. To facilitate this, Simics checkpoints have...

12 years 1 month ago

Simics 4.8 is Here

Simics 4.8 is now generally available for old and new users to enjoy. I will be doing a series of blog posts going into the details on what is new and improved in this release...

12 years 1 month ago

Serving Windows Files from a Simics Quick-Start Platform

Windows file sharing has always felt a bit magical to me. I use it all the time, certainly, but I never quite understood how it worked; it was just this big chunk of Microsoft...

12 years 2 months ago

A Better way to Connect: TCF and Simics

How do you actually connect an integrated development environment or a debugger to a target system? This question is more complicated than it might seem to the uninitiated outsider...

12 years 3 months ago

Debug Quicker with Simics (video demo)

Late last year, I presented a one-hour webinar on how Simics lets you “resolve bugs in minutes instead of weeks.” Part of that webinar were two Simics demos that show Simics in...

12 years 5 months ago

Debugging Simics -- on Simics

I often write and talk about how useful Simics is for debugging concurrency bugs and glitches in multithreaded and multicore systems. Recently, we had a case where we proved this...

12 years 6 months ago

Determinism, Simics, and Flying Piggies

In a recent Simics seminar, I was asked about repeatability, variability, determinism and Simics. This is a question that comes up almost every time I present about Simics in front...

12 years 7 months ago

Simulation is a competitive advantage!

The American general election is over. Pundits providing postmortem analysis will continue to generate a ton of studies. Let’s examine one aspect of the election that has already...

12 years 7 months ago

The Role of Tools in Improving Embedded Software Security / Part 3: Mapping the Tools to Activities

In the previous posts in this series, Part 1: Automation is the Key and Part 2: Security Improvement and the Software Development Lifecycle, I talked about the connection between...

12 years 8 months ago

Systematically Exposing OS Kernel Races – An Interview with Ben Blum

Full-system simulators like Simics provide unparalleled insight into what is going on in a target system. Indeed, better insight is one of the main features of simulation that we...

12 years 9 months ago