Wind River Simics
- 2. Wind River Simics Break the Rules of Embedded Product Development
- 3. Challenge for Embedded Developers Pathetic Reality Why Cause Classic Fix 35% Product Development Off Shore Issues Development Unmanaged Risks New Product Features 31% Time-to- Success Reduction Market Issues 14% Cost Overruns InventVermont Studies 24% Marketing Point Activities Tools Classic fixes just aren’t effective anymore 3 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 4. Imagine If You Could… Reduce your Reduce your debug Reduce your development time-to-market by 66%. time by 35%. target costs by 45%. Debug software before Enable agile and iterative Provide target hardware for hardware exists development every team member Try out your software on a Easily manage and configure Try out several hardware new chip before silicon exists large systems-of-systems configurations before you Integrate and test your Easily debug large systems- commit to one system before the system of-systems Equip sales and tech support exists with inexpensive and flexible virtual targets 4 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 5. Imagine If You Could … Shift your schedules left. Enable agile and iterative development—parallelize work. Begin software development before hardware is available. Replace big-bang integration with incremental integration. Have full system available months in advance of target hardware. 5 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 6. Simulate Any Embedded System Multiple Boards Rack of Boards Connected via Ethernet or other Connected via VME or other communication buses backplane Complete Single Board Customized Digital System Your own custom board or Containing hundreds of CPUs a standard reference/production board and devices including CPU and all devices on the board Wind River Simics simulates your digital hardware, enabling your unmodified target software to run on it. 6 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 7. What Is Wind River Simics? Wind River Simics is a full system simulator used by software developers to simulate the hardware of large and complex electronic systems. Wind River Simics Simulate any size of Any target system. Target Run unmodified System target binaries. Simics allows you to break the rules of embedded product development. 7 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 8. Simics Transforms the Product Life Cycle Use virtual target for architectural analysis: – Pre-silicon architecture analysis using actual target software – Legacy system upgrade analysis using actual target software Define Eliminate hardware availability and flaw issues: – Hardware and software co-development – Develop target software before hardware is available Utilize virtual target instead of host-based development: Sustain Time-to-Market Bring-Up – Advanced target hardware for everyone TCO CapEx – Easy collaboration among entire team OpEx Eliminate system availability issues: – Iterative and incremental integration and test – Debugging at the system level Integrate Develop Utilize virtual platform even after development is complete: – Maintenance of legacy products for five, 10, 20+ years – Support of many different customer configurations Reusable Assets Enable Agile and Iterative Development 8 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 9. Wind River Simics Impact on Consolidation Application Application Software Software OS OS Firmware Firmware Hypervisor Wind River Simics Model of Wind River Simics Model of Legacy System Multi-core Design – Replace paper analysis with real software on both designs. – Reduce risks of moving to a new technology. – Evaluate impact on complete system. – Put legacy and new systems on every engineer’s desktop. 9 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 10. Wind River Simics Impact on Costs Simics – Reduce CapEx, OpEx, and developmental costs. – Replace expensive system hardware with virtual systems. – Mitigate risks of budget compression. – Replace expensive labs with virtual labs. – Provide inexpensive target hardware for all developers and testers. 10 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 11. Wind River Simics Impact on Product Life Cycle Simics – Improve collaboration across entire product life cycle. – Reduce number of iterations of physical prototypes needed. – Collaborate with a virtual platform among hardware and software teams. – Access system sooner. – Utilize the virtual platform for tech support and sales/marketing tasks. 11 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 12. Wind River Simics Impact on Large/Complex Systems Development Simics – Debug more efficiently at system-of-systems level. – Analyze impact of new technology on legacy system. – Replicate and configure large systems of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. – Manage many different system configurations. 12 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 13. Wind River Simics Impact on Time-to-Market and Risks Integrate incrementally throughout life cycle, not just at the end. Parallelize hardware, software, and systems development. Minimize risks of late/nonfunctioning target hardware. Put a target system on every engineer’s desktop. 13 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 14. What Wind River Simics Customers Say Computing Server Networking Industrial Space Shortens bring-up Finds and solves Prevents the loss of Saves $6M in target time from 22 weeks problems in 30 $10M by getting the hardware labs to 29 days minutes instead of ASIC right before three weeks and manufacturing three people Configures complex labs in minutes instead of weeks 14 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 15. Wind River Simics Customers Aerospace and Defense Industrial and Medical Network Equipment Airbus AMCC Alcatel-Lucent BAE Systems Emerson Cisco Boeing Freescale Ericsson GE Aviation IBM IP Wireless General Dynamics Intel Huawei Honeywell Hitachi Motorola Iridium Rockwell Automation Nortel JAXA Tektronix L3 Communications Xerox Lockheed Martin NASA Northrop Grumman Raytheon 15 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
- 16. Wind River Simics Simulates any size/complexity target system Runs unmodified target production binaries Allows you to break the rules of embedded product development -66% Time-to-Market -35% Debug Time -45% CapEx 16 | © 2011 Wind River. All Rights Reserved.
Editor's Notes
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