virtual system | Wind River

Wind River Blog

Tag:
virtual system

12 articles

Back to blog

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 5 months ago

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...

12 years 10 months ago

You Will be Simulated - A Bit Quicker

We just released a new Simics feature, the QSP (Quick-Start Platform). This is a synthetic simulation-only Simics target machine that is included with the Simics base product. QSP...

12 years 10 months ago

Resistance is futile. You will be simulated!

Within our blog series, we frequently refer to functional simulation as a requisite to do things that aren't possible in the real world when working on a physical board and a cross...

12 years 10 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...

Crystal Forest on Simics

A few week ago, Intel announced the Crystal Forest platform , a new IA-based platform for networking and communications applications. The first Crystal Forest hardware is appearing...

13 years 2 months ago

Making a Faulty Serial Port

As noted before , one common use case for Simics is doing fault injection. Fault injection is typically added to an existing system without changing it, since the goal is to...

13 years 3 months ago

Simics for Networked Systems: An Interview with RTI

Networked systems is one of the primary application areas for Simics . Simics can run many machines inside a single Simics simulation, and apply all Simics features to the system...

13 years 5 months ago

A Virtual Year

A while after I woke up my laptop today, I realized that the fan was pretty noisy. That typically indicates that the processor is working busy on something, and then I spotted...

13 years 8 months ago

Twenty, Thirty, and Sixty Years Ago

In 2011, we mark several anniversaries here at Wind River and in the world of virtual platforms. First of all, it is 30 years since Wind River was founded , in 1981. Ten years...