Course Description

Understand the Simics Simulation Performance concerning Synchronization virtual time, boosting and benchmarking simulation performance, and distributing large multi-target simulations.  

Course Results

After this course, participants will be able to perform the following:

1. Understand how the simulation of multiple cores, processors, and machines works and how virtual time remains synchronized throughout the simulation. 
2. Understand how to use the multi-machine accelerator and multi-core accelerator to boost simulation performance. 
3. Use the performance measurement tools.
4. Understand performance benchmarking. 
5. Tune the simulation to achieve higher performance.
6.  Understand how to set a distributed simulation.

The Course is Suited For

1. Software developers and testers 
2. System integrators and testers 

Prerequisites: 

1. Some experience with embedded software development
2. Some experience with object-oriented programming 
3. Some debugging experiences 

Course Structure

• This eLearning course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
• Viewers use VxWorks 7, Workbench 4, and Simics to gain experience with the topics presented.