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You Will be Simulated – A Bit Quicker
By Jakob Engblom 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...
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Inside a Synthetic Simulation Platform
By Jakob Engblom 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 of...
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Testing Manycore Scaling with Simics
By Jakob Engblom A few years ago, I did a Simics demo where I tested the scalability of a multithreaded program as the target hardware went from two to four to eight cores. Unfortunately, I could not...
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Analyzing Manycore Scaling with Simics
By Jakob Engblom In my previous blog post on multicore scaling investigations with Simics, I tested a simple parallel program on a variety of machines. The scaling obtained was not particularly...
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Systematically Exposing OS Kernel Races – An Interview with Ben Blum
By Jakob Engblom 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 get...
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Simulation is a competitive advantage!
By Michel Genard 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...
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Determinism, Simics, and Flying Piggies
By Jakob Engblom 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 of...
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Debugging Simics — on Simics
By Jakob Engblom 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 on a...
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Debug Quicker with Simics (video demo)
By Jakob Engblom 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 action,...
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Simics 4.8 is Here
By Jakob Engblom 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. Simics...
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