Damn Simics

What the hell is Simics? September 21, 2007 (Part of the slides are from CSE 532 Tutorial) NOTE: Some of the contents here are outdated. Esp. Simics 2.0 is no longer supported by VirtuTech. You have to install and use Simics 3.0.

Overview of Simics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Some keywords ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What to simulate? CPU Uniprocessor Credit: GEMS@Wisc Symmetric Multiprocessor Glueless Multiprocessor Multiple-CMP CMP CMP CMP CMP P Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) P P P $ $ $ $

System level simulator ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Full System Simulation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Simics helps a lot ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Fast or slow simulator? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Flexibility with modules ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Simulator Translation Cache ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

How to simulate multiprocessors? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Start Simics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Pause/Stop the simulation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Checkpoints ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Access Host Files ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Execution Model ,[object Object],[object Object]

Default Timing Model ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

User Defined Timing Model ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Setup your own Simics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Note: As Simics is evolving quite rapidly and many bugs are fixed in later versions, users are generally recommend to upgrade. Possible compatibility issues are read in the RELEASENOTES.

Setup Simics 2.2.12 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Successfully tested on eru as of 09/21/2007

Setup Simics 2.2.12 (cont’d) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Setup Simics 3.0.11 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Setup Simics 3.0.11 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Recompiling Simics (with user modules) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Variations ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Resources ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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