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System Level Simulation Speeds Software Debugging
by Peter S. Magnusson, Virtutech, Inc.
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ESC Round One
Cool and Groovy Galore

The barrage of Embedded Systems Conference announcements has officially begun. Here at the first day of the show, we wanted to wade through the vast wasteland of "Company A standardizes on Company B's products" and "Company C Announces Essentially Nothing at This Year's ESC" to bring you a few really interesting developments.

As we mentioned last week, two of the key themes of ESC this year will be multi-core and ESL. From first-day announcements, let's discuss a few of our favorites in each category. On the multi-core side, we'll look at Virtutech's announcement of Simics support for Freescale's MPC8641D dual-core processor. Many developers are skeptical about the use of simulation for software debug when actual hardware is often available, but a simulation-based methodology offers some compelling advantages, particularly with the move to multi-core. [more]