Virtutech Simics
Virtutech Simics is a very powerful simulation tool, and we will only be scratching the surface of it in this course. For some more information on Simics, read the introductory texts available from Virtutech, or look at the slides from the presentation Jakob made at the ESSES summerschool in the summer of 2003.
For a practical introduction to Simics, see the introductory lab, or read the first chapters of the Simics user's guide.
Access to Simics
Simics is installed on the Sun/Solaris systems at the IT Department, who has a site license to Simics for research and education work. The installation guide for details how to setup and start Simics.
To get started using Simics, please do the Simics introduction lab.
If you want to run Simics on your own computer at home, go to https://www.simics.net/evaluation/academic.php to request your own free one-year academic license. Simics is available for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. For more information about the licensing of Simics, please see Virtutechs academic pages.
Documentation and Help
- To access the Virtutech online resources at www.simics.net, you need to register a user on the Virtutech online forums (this is also required to download a personal Simics license).
- The Simics manuals in HTML and PDF format are found online at https://www.simics.net/support, or in the SIMICS/doc directory in your Simics installation.
- Try searching the Simics online help forums for answers to your questions. The forum is found at https://www.simics.net/forum/ (you need to be registered for this service as well).
More Tips
More Simics tips are found at the debug hints page.
If Simics Crashes
Which it shouldn't, of course, but it sometimes happens. Please report it on the Simics forum, in the board for bug reports.