Patterns in the Machine: A Software Engineering Guide to Embedded Development

© John T. Taylor, Wayne T. Taylor 2021

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7. Functional Simulator

John T. Taylor¹   and Wayne T. Taylor²

(1)

Covington, GA, USA

(2)

Golden, CO, USA

 

A functional simulation is the execution of production source code on a platform—that is not the target platform—which provides the majority of the functionality (but not necessarily the real-time performance). Or, more simply, functional simulation is being able to develop, execute, and test production code without target hardware.

From a project management perspective, a functional simulation of the hardware eliminates the finish-to-start dependency the software has on the hardware and allows the hardware and software ...