Virtutech Customer Case Studies

Simics was used by this manufacturer of high-end, high-performance server because of the complexity of the hardware and software. Using virtualized system developed allowed this company to shave years off of their development cycle.

In developing its next-generation Xpeedium3 switch chip, SwitchCore needed to provide a simulated evaluation environment in which to develop and test the company’s software. In order to enable development of software drivers and management packages prior to availability of silicon prototypes, the use of a simulation model was a necessity.

Iridium utilizes Simics because its target hardware, satellites in space, are not accessible to their software and systems developers. By utilizing virtualized system development, these engineers can develop, debug, and test their software changes before uploading to the satellite. In addition, because hardware characteristics change as the satellites age, they can model these changes as well to ensure that their software will be operational.

With Simics, our telecommunication and datacommunication customers benefit from reduced development and capital costs, reduced risks, reduced time to market, increased quality, and are able to provide better technical support to their customers. This case study describes the problems that these types of customers usually face, how Simics solves these problems, and the benefits associated with using Simics.

This case study describes how Wind River used Virtutech® Simics® to port their products to multi-core targets.