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Academic Simics

Simics has a long history of university usage. Simics grew out of research at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SiCS, which is part of the root of the name of Simics), and...

14 years 5 months ago

When is Scripting really Programming?

I recently updated some analysis scripts in Simics to use the new OS awareness framework in Simics 4.4. While doing so, I completely updated the structure of the code, ending up...

14 years 6 months ago

It is all about the interfaces!

I was at the Freescale conference this week (FTF2010 in Orlando, FL) and the Wednesday’ key note speech from Hugh Herr was truly inspiring in a lot of dimensions. First, at human...

14 years 6 months ago

Travelling into 64-bit Land with Simics

The new Freescale QorIQ P5020 SoC that was announced this week at the Freescale Technology Forum means that yet another chip family has now moved to 64 bits from 32 bits. This is a...

14 years 6 months ago

True Concurrency is Truly Different (Again)

A recent article at Ars Technica describes yet another security flaw in Windows. Nothing much new in that respect, but this is indeed an interesting attack in that it is enabled by...

14 years 6 months ago

Blinded by a Tree

Developing large systems is a lot like trying to get an appreciation of the Amazon when you’re standing beneath a single tree in the middle of it. Sure, there’s a lot that you can...

14 years 7 months ago

What is Simics, Really?

As you might have seen, Wind River recently acquired Simics, a product formerly sold by Virtutech. My colleagues Michel Genard and Bill Graham recently blogged on the topic. Simics...

14 years 8 months ago

A Few Ashes in the Sky Made Me Virtual

I wished I was a virtual system. We take for granted that access to the infrastructure is always on and available for telecommunications, broadband, and travel. Well, some ashes...

14 years 8 months ago

Get Real, Go Virtual

I am going to make a bold statement: Go virtual to create reality. Seems crazy enough? According to Wikipedia, reality means "the state of things as they actually exist.” The...

14 years 9 months ago

The Ultimate Head Start

I was very excited on hearing about Intel's acquisition of Virtutech and subsequent announcement that Simics was going to be part of our product line. Why? Because Simics gives you...

14 years 9 months ago