AMD Confidential
User Manual
September 12
th
, 2008
Chapter 15: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Figure 3-12: Created DIMM Device Group
The device GUI for the children of “
Dimm DDR2 1GBx2 #0
” would look like this:
Figure 3-13: Children of DIMM Device Group
If we looked at the options and configuration of the device library “
-> Machine #1 ->
Dimm DDR2 1GBx2 #0 -> Dimm Bank #0
” (either from the GUI or from the console),
we would see that it is already configured as DDR2 with 2 dimm slots (1GB each).
This example demonstrates a broad concept. An existing device that has a more generic
and abstract definition (such as a non-configured “
Dimm Bank
”) can be wrapped in a
device group to give it an identity as a particular hardware implementation (such as an
already configured “
Dimm DDR2 1GBx2
”). More generally, any device can be wrapped
by a device group, to give an alternate default configuration for the device‟s state
(archive data).
15.1.5.2
Example: Quad-Core Node
Next we will consider examples relevant to the ability of a device group to have multiple
child devices, default archive data for each child device, and connections between the
child devices. These next examples are based on a quad-core processor node.
Building a processor node in SimNow has traditionally been a multi-step process. First
the user would add the "
AMD 8th Generation Northbridge Device
", and then add one
"
AweSim Processor
" device for each processing core in the node. These devices then
need to be connected together along the respective "
CPU Bus" and "Interrupt / IOAPIC
"