Wind River Simics is a full system simulator used by software developers to simulate any target hardware from a single processor to large, complex, and connected electronic systems. This simulation enables the target software (board support package, firmware, real-time operating system, middleware, and application) to run on a virtual platform the same way it does on the physical hardware. This fast and accurate virtual environment enables engineering, integration, and test teams to adopt approaches and techniques that are simply not possible on physical hardware. For example, developers can freeze, save, email, and restore the whole system; they can view and modify every device, register, or memory location; and they can run the whole system in reverse to find the source of a bug. Using Simics, companies can adopt new approaches to the product development life cycle, yielding dramatic reduction in project risks and development costs and improvement to both product quality and engineering efficiency.

1. Wind River Simics
Break the Rules of Embedded Product Development

2. What Is Wind River Simics?
Wind River Simics is a full-system simulator used
by software developers to emulate the hardware of
any digital electronic systems.
Wind River  Emulate any size of
Any Simics target system
Target  Run unmodified
System target binaries
Simics allows you to break the rules of embedded product development.
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3. What does Wind River Simics Offer?
Agility for the entire
team Reducing Risks
Reducing Time to Market
Access to the complete
system for everyone
Reducing Costs
Increasing Quality
System Debugging
Capabilities
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4. What does Wind River Simics Simulate?
Customer Value
Processor SoC Devices Complete Boards Devices, Complete
and Memory Racks of Boards, Customized Digital
and Backplanes System
System Complexity
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5. How do Customers Use Simics?
Simics Transforms the Product Life Cycle
 Use virtual target for architectural analysis:
– Pre-silicon architecture analysis using actual target software
– Legacy system upgrade/migration analysis using actual target
software Define
 Eliminate hardware availability issues:
– Hardware and software co-development
– Develop target software before hardware is available
 Utilize virtual target instead of host-based development: Deploy Time-to-Market Bring-Up
– Advanced target hardware for everyone TCO
CapEx
– Easy collaboration among entire team OpEx
 Eliminate system availability issues:
– Iterative and incremental integration and test
– Debugging at the system level Integrate Develop
 Utilize virtual platform even after development is complete:
– Maintenance of legacy products for five, 10, 20+ years
– Support of many different customer configurations Reusable Assets Enable Agile
and Iterative Development
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6. Why a Virtual Platform?
Typical Use Case – Complement HW
Simics
 Reduce CapEx, OpEx, and developmental costs:
– Replace expensive labs with virtual labs.
– Replicate, assemble, and configure large systems of COTS
components.
– Configure new systems-of-systems faster.
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7. Why a Virtual Platform?
Typical Use Case – Accelerate Development
 Simics shifts schedules left:
– Enable agile and iterative development—parallelize work.
– Replace big-bang integration with incremental integration.
– Manage and debug system-of-systems.
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8. Why a Virtual Platform?
Typical Use Case – Optimize Development
Application Application
Software Software
OS OS
Firmware Firmware
Hypervisor
Simics Model of Simics Model of
Legacy System Multi-core Design
 Simics expedites consolidation:
– Replace paper analysis with real software on both designs.
– Reduce risks of moving to a new technology.
– Evaluate impact on complete system.
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9. Why Simics ?
Cool Features
Full Determinism
• Repeatability
• Host independent
Synchronous
• Stop all systems at once
• No glitch
Do the impossible
• Reverse execute the system
• Stop time - slow time down - speed time up
Fault Injection
• On any component of the virtual platform
• Any kind of constraints
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10. Why Simics ?
Cool Features
Full System Checkpoint
• Snapshot all states
• Relevant for ever
See Everything, Trace Everything
• No JTAG / Scan chain limitations
• Even register not accessible by HW
• Unlimited breakpoints (HW, SW)
Scripting and Automation
• Build, run, control , inspect with no limit
• Interface with others tools
Connectivity
• To / from the real world
• Build & run simulation of system of systems
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11. Wind River Simics Summary
 Simulates any size/complexity target system
 Runs unmodified target production binaries
-45% CapEx -66% Time-to-Market -35% Debug Time
Simics allows you to break the rules of embedded product development.
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