Benefits of Simulators
Architectural simulators are very useful for the following purposes:
- evaluating different hardware designs without building costly physical hardware systems.
- enabling the opportunities to access non-existing computer components or systems
- obtaining detailed performance metrics: A single execution of simulators can often generate a large set of performance data.
- debugging: Debugging on real hardware typically require re-booting and re-running the code to reproduce the problems. In contrast, some simulators have a fully controlled environment and allow software developers to run code backward once an error is detected.
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