Wind River Simics has been used in teaching for as long as I have been aware of Simics. Indeed, my first contact with Simics was when it was used in a graduate computer architecture course at Uppsala University in Sweden. In that course, we modeled cache hierarchies and replacement strategies with Simics and measured the performance results. A few years later, I was part of a team that created a project course based on Simics where students got to write their own operating system from scratch. Using Simics in teaching is an ongoing interest of mine, and that's why I am very happy to present another interview with a Simics user. This time, it is Professor Massimo Violante and the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, who is using Simics to teach operating systems.
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Jakob Engblom is Technical Marketing Manager for the Simics product line at Wind River. He came to Wind River with the Virtutech acquisition in March 2010, and has been working with Simics since 2002. As technical marketing manager, he works with the what and how of Simics usage, including actually writing real code.
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