SimNow Simulator User Manual

AMD Confidential
User Manual September 12
th
, 2008
Chapter 3: Graphical User Interface 23
A device group can optionally specify initial and default archive data (device state) for
each of its child devices. A device group with five children could specify archive data for
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or all 5 children. We could have an “AMD 4-core CPU xxxx” that specifies
archive data for all five of its children (configured with the (theoretical) product ID file
“amd-xxxx.id”).
This is not the only way we could create a (theoretical) “AMD 4-core CPU xxxx”. A
cleaner idea would be to reuse the non-configured abstract and generic “4 core Node”.
This device group would (externally) be functionally the same as our previous “AMD 4-
core CPU xxxx” example, although it has the additional layer where it cleanly reuses “4
core Node”. We could also reuse “4 core Node” for other device groups that represent a
particular hardware implementation of a 4-core node, such as the (theoretical) “AMD 4-
core CPU yyyy” configured with the (theoretical) product ID file “amd-yyyy.id”. Or a
Configured with product
ID file amd-xxxx.id
Configured with product
ID file amd-xxxx.id