AMD Confidential
User Manual
November 21
st
, 2008
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Chapter 5: Running the Simulator
Argument
Description
-n --novga
Disable VGA Window.
-c --nogui
Disable GUI (console mode).
-d
Disable mouse and keyboard inputs to
simulator.
-r --register
Register the simulator with the O/S as an
automation server.
-h --help -?
Print this help message.
Table 5-1: Command-Line Arguments
For instance, to open the
cheetah_1p.bsd
when starting the simulator you can enter the
following:
C:\SimNow\simnow –f cheetah_1p.bsd
5.1.1 Open a Simulation Definition File
Click on
and select one of the
".bsd
" files located in the “
\SimNow
” directory. The
".bsd
" files contain pre-configured simulation definitions designed to model a specific
AMD processor-based computer system. For this example, load the “
cheetah_1p.bsd
”
file, from in the SimNow directory. Upon loading the BSD file, the
Main Window
(shown
in Figure 5-2) will be filled with three sections. The left column contains informational
graphs if selected (see Section 3.4.2, “
CPU-Statistics Graphs
”, on page
30
), the top row
contains numeric displays of simulation statistics and disk-drive access information, and
the remainder contains the
Simulation Display Area
of the simulated machine. The
Simulation Display Area
remains blank until the simulated machine is started.
