Wind
River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has
introduced the latest version of Wind River Simics which features a
quick start capability allowing embedded developers to easily and
immediately benefit from using full system simulation when developing,
debugging, and testing software.
Wind River Simics now includes Quick Start Platform (QSP), which
provides a synthetic virtual platform coupled with an instruction set
simulator for specific architectures. QSP is also bundled with board
support packages (BSPs) for VxWorks® and Linux, including additional
BSPs planned for the latest versions of Wind River Linux, which makes
for a convenient development platform for developers, especially those
creating user-level application software not tied to the specifics of
the target hardware.
“Using simulation provides significant savings in total cost of
ownership and time, especially when working on complex systems. Wind
River Simics not only enables application development to begin earlier
but can also help determine the most appropriate system designs and ease
hardware migration,” said Michel Genard, vice president of tools and
lifecycle solutions at Wind River. “With Wind River Simics, developers
can get hands-on experience and take advantage of virtual platforms and
simulation techniques much sooner.”
While industry research has indicated growth in the adoption of virtual
system prototyping and simulation tools, timely project completion rates
are still a challenge, especially for complex projects.1 Wind
River Simics provides a fast and easy jump start for developers, and in
turn, helping to further encourage adoption of simulation.
By using Wind River Simics right away, developers can immediately
benefit from capabilities such as reverse execution and checkpointing.
In reverse execution, the ability to back up and redo program runs
allows for close and repeated examination of a run, producing the same
results each time. Repeatability and reversibility are valuable in the
development and debugging of complex software, and are capabilities not
possible with a physical machine. Checkpoints provide a precise snapshot
of an entire system’s state. A software tester can alert developers to a
bug by taking a checkpoint and passing it along so they can resume
execution precisely from the perspective of the tester.
As a full system simulator, Wind River Simics can simulate any target
hardware system, from a single processor board, a multi-core system or
an entire system containing hundreds of boards with different
architectures. Unmodified target software binaries can run on a Simics
simulation as if on the actual physical hardware.
For additional information about Wind River Simics and its latest
features, visit http://www.windriver.com/products/simics/full-system-simulation-debugging/
and http://blogs.windriver.com/tools/2012/06/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-simulated.html.
To see key Wind River Simics capabilities in action, view video
demonstrations at http://youtu.be/ZpNYW6pbV4U.
About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:
INTC), is a world leader in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has
been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981 and its
technology is found in more than 1 billion products. Wind River is
headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with offices in more than 20
countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com
or on Facebook.
1 VDC
Research, Analyst Blog, Virtual Platforms – White Knight or Red
Herring?, September 7, 2010
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