University of California at Berkeley
           Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
                          Instructional Support Group

/share/b/pub/simics.help
/share/b/pub/flexus.help

								Aug 29 2016

CONTENTS:

	Simics and Flexus
	Installation Notes
	Licenses


Simics and Flexus
-----------------
  Simics (http://www.simics.com) is a software development tool that simulates 
  an embedded system in a virtual environment.  
  
  Flexus (http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~simflex/) is a set of tools that run with 
  Simics to simulate multiprocessor systems running unmodified operating 
  systems and applications.  

  These programs wee installed for CS152 students in Spring 2010 on Linux
  computers in 125 Cory.  Now, it may run on these Centos servers:

	hpse-9.eecs.berkeley.edu ... hpse-15.eecs.berkeley.edu

  The program is in /share/instsww/pkg/virtutech/simics-3.0.30/bin/simics

  All users with Instructional UNIX accounts can 'ssh' into those servers
  (http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~inst/newusers.html).

  Additional image files (from https://www.simics.net/mwf/vh?34) installed 
  for CS152 include 

	simics-3.0.30/targets/x86-440bx/images/tango1-fedora5.craff
	simics-3.0.30/targets/ia64-460gx/images/vasa5-rh72.craff
	simics-3.0.30/targets/sunfire/images/bagle5-suse73.craff

  Note that both CS152 and CS250 have adopted "chisel", which is a 
  Berkeley project that they tend to use along with Synopsys tools
  (https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/).

Installation Notes
------------------
  
  Simics requires GCC 4.1.2/GLIBC 2.5-18 to compile.

Licenses
--------
   Simics has free academic licenses, and Flexus is free.


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