- PowerPC behavioral simulator has about 40,000 lines of C++ code
- IBM developed a model-based test generator, an expert system which
contains a formal model of processor architecture, and a heuristic data
base of testing knowledge
- Goal is to improve the quality of tests
- Verification of previous RS/6000 processor involved 15 billion
simulation cycles (large team with hundreds of computers during a
year)
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Monitors can be compiled with the simulation
model to make it easy to check whether a failure has occurred
- Commercial tools and environments are available to facilitate
simulation
- Some efforts to automatically generate test cases
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