A method based on Bochs for accelerating the x86 timing emulator

Abstract

System structure software simulation technology is a method on realizing the simulation of the computer system hardware in the system structure levels of functionality and performance characteristics by applying the software. The system structure software simulation technology has become an indispensable link for the design, evaluation, and verification of a modern computer system. The speed is very important factor to constrain the use of simulator. Two levels of technical measures from the development and running of simulator are taken to improve the simulator speed. A method based on Bochs is presented and improve to verify the timing simulator. This approach can maintain the accuracy of timing simulation based on the timing simulator to further accelerate the speed of the verification. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.