Virtutech is pleased to announce the availability of Simics 4.2. This major new release introduces Simics Accelerator™ 2.0, enhanced Eclipse support, modeling support, target operating system awareness, and a number of other features.

Announcing Simics 4.2

Enhancements and New Features in Simics 4.2

Faster performance for complex systems — Distributed execution makes Simics the best available solution for high performance, complex system comprised of tens to hundreds of processors.
Hierarchical system model representation — Eases complex model development
Eclipse Integration — Support for Simics as part of a comprehensive Eclipse-based development solution
SystemC model support — Improved model re-use and migration
IP-XACT (The SPIRIT Consortium) support — Improved silicon IP standards support
Hybrid Simulation — Run functional & Cycle-accurate models
Python custom interface support — Eased simulation control
Operating System Awareness for Enea's OSE RTOS — Adding to Simics OS awareness for Linux & QNX, Simics 4.2 now supports Enea OSE
Enhanced Extensibility — Simics is now more open, agnostic and extensible

The Simics 4.2 combination of high performance, scalability and model accuracy makes it the only commercially available full system simulator that is fast enough to allow software developers and integrators to do their work on full software stack development for complex systems - without access to real hardware.

New Simics Model Library Component Entries

Simics 4.2 introduces several new components into the Simics model library which includes off-the-shelf support for hundreds of hardware peripherals and a number of CPU families including: ARM, MIPS, Power Architecture, SPARC, SH, H8, C64, x86 and more.

Key Benefits of Simics 4.2

Supports larger and more complex systems with even faster performance
Transparently increases the performance of your existing systems
Provides improved support for remote development teams
Faster and easier debug and system analysis
Simplifies re-use of existing model components within a larger, superset model
Improved standards compatibility: SystemC, IP-XACT (The SPIRIT Consortium), Eclipse tools framework
Better toolset integration

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