Wind River Introduces Improved Simics Virtual Systems Development Solution: Network Acceleration Report

Engineers often face various difficulties in giving a demonstration of their product due to lack of proper hardware facilities. 

To assist in this type of situation, network acceleration services provider Wind River has unveiled Wind River (News - Alert) Simics 4.4, a virtual systems development system. This solution allows engineers to define, develop and deploy a product using a virtual representation of their target hardware, according to the company.

 

Allowing original equipment manufacturers to undertake critical software development activities on virtual platforms, Wind River Simics 4.4 supports full-system simulation eliminates semiconductor availability constraints or other limitations.

Simics 4.4 also supports a variety of hardware architectures, including ARM, Intel (News - Alert), MIPS and Power Architecture, and can help semiconductor manufacturers redefine complex system-on-chip development, claims Wind River.

 

"Simics opens new horizons in traditional cross-development environments by enabling actual full-system simulation across any mix of target hardware, operating systems and tools customers choose to use," said Michel Genard, vice president of product strategy and marketing for Simics at Wind River. "With Simics 4.4, customers can meet aggressive time-to-market deadlines, while reducing product development costs and increasing overall product quality,'

 

Simics 4.4 features include the "Wind River Simics Analyzer" and easy integration with VxWorks and Wind River Linux -- as well as support for other operating systems and tools environments. It also features statement code coverage on binary code, expanded support for running multiple models in parallel is included for C, C++, SystemC and DML, Wind River Simics Extension Builder and ease of integration for other simulators such as ISSes (instruction set simulators) into Simics.

 

Recently, the company integrated support for HP BladeSystem carrier-grade and enterprise server blades into its industry-leading Carrier Grade Linux, or "CGL," operating system-tools-and-build system. The move allows carrier customers to standardize on one common carrier-grade operating system platform to build highly reliable network elements across different hardware platforms. Wind River Linux is the first registered CGL 4.0 solution supported on HP ProLiant server blades for HP BladeSystem.