Software and System Development using Virtual Platforms

Table of contents

1. Cover image
2. Title page
3. Copyright
4. Foreword
5. Acknowledgments
6. Chapter 1. Introduction
   1. Virtual Platforms
   2. Simulation and the System Development Lifecycle
   3. Model-Driven Development
   4. Book Outline
   5. Trademark Information
7. Chapter 2. Simics fundamentals
   1. Simics† Architecture and Terminology
   2. Running Real Software Stacks
   3. Interacting with Simics
   4. Configurations and the Simics Object Model
   5. Components
   6. Time in Simics
   7. Abstraction Levels
   8. Event-Based Simulation
   9. Memory Maps
   10. Memory Images
   11. Checkpointing
   12. Determinism and Repeatability
   13. Simics Performance Technology
   14. Models and Extensions
8. Chapter 3. Develop and debug software on Simics
   1. Development Means Testing
   2. Agent-Based Debugger
   3. Debugging Using Simics
   4. Performance Analysis
   5. Inspecting the Hardware State
   6. Fault-Injection and Boundary Conditions
   7. Using Checkpoints
   8. Loading Software
   9. Continuous Integration
   10. Shortcuts in the Software Stack
9. Chapter 4. System configuration in Simics
   1. Simics Component System
   2. Setup Scripts
   3. Automating Target Configuration and Boot
10. Chapter 5. Networking
    1. Network Simulation in Simics
    2. Simulated Network Nodes
    3. Traffic Inspection and Modification
    4. Scaling Up the Network Size
    5. Connecting the Real World
    6. Ethernet Real-Network Variants
    7. Programming New Networks
11. Chapter 6. Building virtual platforms
    1. The Purpose of the Model
    2. Virtual Platforms in Simics
    3. Device Modeling Language
    4. Reusing Existing Information
    5. DML Features
    6. Creating Device Models
    7. Completing the Device Model
    8. Reserved Registers and Missed Accesses
    9. Creating Models in Other Languages
12. Chapter 7. DMA: A concrete modeling example
    1. DMA Device Description
    2. Implementing the Basic DMA Device Model
    3. Creating a PCI Express (PCIe) Model
    4. Creating a Component for the DMA Model
    5. Creating a Device Driver
13. Chapter 8. Simulator extensions
    1. Introduction
    2. Implementing Extensions
    3. Cache and Memory Simulation
    4. Fault Injection
14. Chapter 9. Simulator integration
    1. Introduction
    2. Problems and Solutions
    3. Run Control
    4. Launching and Embedding
    5. Time Management
    6. Communications
    7. Frontends
    8. Running Simics from Other Programs
    9. Record–Replay Debugging of Target Software
    10. Running on a Simics Target
    11. Multiple Simulator APIs
    12. Simics Processor API
15. Chapter 10. Intel® architecture bring-up
    1. Pre-Silicon Process
    2. Early OS Enabling
    3. Post-Silicon Process
    4. Post-Silicon Case Study: PXE
16. Appendix A. Source code
    1. Chapter 6: Counter Device
    2. Chapter 7: DMA Device
17. References
18. Index