Simics Accelerator 2.0

Simics Accelerator supports multicore hosts and, new in 2.0, networked connected hosts to provide the fastest execution of any size simulation by spreading the simulation load across every available CPU core.

Using Accelerator, Simics is the only commercial simulator capable of running massive virtual platform models containing scores of boards and hundreds of target processors - at a speed that is fast enough to satisfy the needs of the average systems engineer, software developer, or systems tester.

Simics Accelerator applies the Processing Power and Memory of Multiple, Network Connected Platforms to Simulation Execution

Key Problems Addressed:

• Very large and complex models can tax the processing and memory resources of the simulation-host platform, resulting in slow performance.
• Software developers can always use faster speed out of their simulations
• Engineering labs may be unable to purchase new hardware - they should be able to easily leverage existing hardware to increase simulation capabilities.
• A simulation run on a distributed host must provide the same determinism, run-to-run repeatability, model and checkpoint file support as provided by Simics on any other arbitrary host configuration.

Who should care?

• Mil-Aero, Networking or Systems engineers responsible for very complex target systems
• Communications Network Engineers
• System Integrators
• Any one who desires increased performance from their simulation of a complex target system

Distributing Simulation Processing Loads

Simics Accelerator 2.0 allows the total available simulation host processing power and total memory to be easily extended to satisfy the most stringent model and performance requirements. Using Accelerator, the total available simulation host processing power and total memory to be easily extended across multiple CPUs or host platforms. This approach eliminates the limitations of finite host processing power and memory when simulating very complex systems.

Accelerator supports multiple network-connected Simics hosts with different hardware configurations - e.g., one host can be a quad-core 2 GHz 64-bit Linux machine, while another can be a 32-bit Windows machine with a dual-core 3 GHz processor . This host independence eliminates the need for development teams to purchase dedicated server platforms. Instead, they are able to deploy available PC hardware to support increasingly complex simulations.