Porting Applications to RSIM

 

When porting applications to run under RSIM, the user must consider the following issues:

1. RSIM process creation and shared memory model
2. RSIM applications library
3. Synchronization support for multiprocessor applications
4. Statistics collection
5. Performance tuning of the application
6. Options to improve simulation speed

This chapter describes each of the above issues and the effect they have on porting applications to RSIM. Assembly programmers will also need to account for the unsupported instructions discussed in Section 3.1. The reader is encouraged to see the example applications included in the apps directory of the RSIM distribution as illustrations of the concepts discussed in this section.

• Process creation and shared memory model
• RSIM applications library
• Synchronization support for multiprocessor applications
• Statistics collection
• Performance tuning
• Options to improve simulation speed
  • Moving data initialization offline
  • Avoiding memory system simulation