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title: IBM POWER8 Functional Simulator
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link: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6491151
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tags:
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- power8
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- simulator
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- cpu
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- isa
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date: 2022-01-09
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draft: false
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The IBM POWER8 Functional Simulator is a simulation environment developed by IBM.
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It is designed to provide enough POWER8 processor complex functionality to allow the entire software stack to execute,
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including loading, booting and running a Fedora 20 BE (Big Endian) kernel image or a Debian LE (Little Endian) kernel image.
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The intent for this tool is to educate, enable new application development,
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and to facilitate porting of existing Linux applications to the POWER8 architecture.
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While the IBM POWER8 Functional Simulator serves as a full instruction set simulator for the POWER8 processor,
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it may not model all aspects of the IBM Power Systems POWER8 hardware and thus may not exactly reflect the behavior of the POWER8 hardware.
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