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Wind River Blog: Crystal Forest on Simics
There is a new post at my Wind River blog, about Simics running a model of the new Intel Crystal Forest platform. Crystal Forest is a very complex piece of hardware, but I am pretty happy that we...
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Does ISA Matter for Performance?
When I grew up with computers, the big RISC vs CISC debate was raging. At the time, in the late 1980s, it did indeed seem that RISC was inherently superior to CISC. SPARCs, MIPS, and Alpha all outpaced...
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Intel Technology Journal on Simics
The September 2013 issue of the Intel Technology Journal (which actually arrived in December) is all about Simics. Daniel Aarno of Intel and I served as the content architects for the issue, which...
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Wind River Guest Blog: Interview with Sangeeta, a CoFluent user doing...
Even though I am now working for Intel, the nice folks at Wind River have let me do blogging on the Wind River blog as a guest anyway. I first blogged about the fantastic world of simulators that I...
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First post on the Intel Software and Services Blog
I have posted my first blog post to the Intel Software and Services blog channel. The Intel Software and Services blog is one channel in the Intel corporate blog you find at https://blogs.intel.com/....
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Clocks or Cores? Choose One
Once upon a time, when multicore processors were novelties, multicore was motivated by the simple fact that it was impossible to keep raising the clock frequency of processors. More “clocks” simply...
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”Figure out What to Do”, Says the Manual
I just spend some hours building a new living room PC for the home. I based on common components like a Fractal Design Node 202 chassis and an MSI Z270i motherboard for my Intel Core i7-7700 processor....
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Intel Blog: Question: Does Software Actually Use New Instruction Sets?
Over time, Intel and other processor core designers add more and more instructions to the cores in our machines. A good question is how quickly and easily new instructions added to an Instruction-Set...
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Intel Blog Post: Looking at the Instruction Mix of Windows 10
In a previous Intel blog post “Question: Does Software Actually Use New Instruction Sets?” I looked at the kinds of instructions used by few different Linux setups, and how each setup was affected by...
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Talking about Temporal Decoupling at DVCon Europe
This year’s Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon Europe) takes place on October 24 and 25 (2018). DVCon Europe has turned into the best conference for virtual platform topics,...
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Embedded World 2019
The Embedded World in Nürnberg is still going strong as the best tradeshow for “Embedded” in the world. This year, I spent time doing booth duty and gave a talk in the Conference part of the event....
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DAC 2019 – Cloud, a Book, an Award, and More
Last week was spent at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Las Vegas. I had a presentation and poster in the Designer/IP track about Clouds, Containers, and Virtual Platforms , and worked in the...
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Intel Blog Post: Shift-Left for a Snowy Ridge
There is a new blog post on the Intel Developer Zone on how we used Simics virtual platforms for the new Intel® Atom® P5900 series of system-on-chip (previously known as Snow Ridge). It talks about...
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DVCon Europe 2020 – Developing Hardware like Software?
The Design and Verification Conference Europe (DVCon Europe) took place back in late October 2020. In a normal year, we would add “in München, Germany” to the end of that sentence. But that is not how...
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Intel Blog: Catching a Tricky Bug by Running Simics on Simics
I recently published a long post on the Intel Community Blog, talking about how my colleague Evgeny solved a nicely complicated bug using Simics-on-Simics. The bug involved UEFI, an operating system,...
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Two Presentations at DVCON Europe 2022
DVCon (Design and Verification Conference) Europe is coming up in early December, in person, in München, Germany. The selection of papers and posters is finished, and the program is firming up. I am...
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This NUC is Dead
Computers can wear out given enough time. I just had an old NUC basically fall apart – on the very day it was being replaced by a new one. The timing is rather too good to be believed, but basically...
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The NUC12 Enthusiast
Right when our old NUC5 died, its replacement had been delivered and brought online – a new Intel NUC12 Enthusiast, also known as the NUC12SNKi72 (I work at Intel, but even I find that name a bit...
View ArticleThe first Computer and System Architecture Unraveled Event in Kista – Great...
On the evening of the last Wednesday in September, we had our first CaSA, Computer and System Architecture Unraveled, event. CaSA is a meetup in Kista (Sweden) for people interested in computer...
View ArticleDVCon Europe 2023 – 10th Anniversary Edition
The 2023 DVCon (Design and Verification) Europe conference took place on November 14 and 15, in the traditional location of the Holiday Inn Munich City Center. This was the 10th time the conference...
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