System and method for increasing performance in multi-CPU simulation
US7451073B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 25, 2002 |
| Grant date | Nov 11, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 9, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F30/20
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for increasing performance in a simulator environment operable to simulate a multiprocessor platform with program code running thereon. A set of processors are initialized upon instantiating the simulator environment on a host machine for executing the program code instructions. Code execution on a simulated processor is suspended by executing a simulator API routine which is called when the program code is to enter an idle state. The host resources that would otherwise have been spent on the processor running the idle loops are therefore conserved for use by the remaining processors.
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