
AMD Confidential 
User Manual    September 12h, 2008 
iv    Contents 
3.4.3  Simulated Video........................................................................................ 27 
3.4.4  Hard Disk and Floppy Display ................................................................. 27 
3.4.5  Using Hard Drive, DVD-/CD-ROM and Floppy Images ......................... 28 
3.4.6  Registry Window ...................................................................................... 28 
3.4.7  Help, Problems and Bug Reports .............................................................. 29 
4  Disk Images .............................................................................................................. 31 
4.1  Creating A Blank Hard-Drive Image ................................................................ 31 
5  Running the Simulator .............................................................................................. 35 
5.1  Command-Line Arguments .............................................................................. 35 
5.1.1  Open a Simulation Definition File ............................................................ 36 
5.2  Installing an Operating System ......................................................................... 38 
5.2.1  Assigning Disk-Images ............................................................................. 38 
5.2.2  Run The Simulation .................................................................................. 40 
5.2.3  Interaction with the Simulated Machine ................................................... 41 
5.2.4  Simulation Reset ....................................................................................... 41 
5.3  Multi-Machine Support ..................................................................................... 41 
6  Create a Simulated Computer ................................................................................... 45 
6.1  BSD Files .......................................................................................................... 45 
6.2  Device Placement.............................................................................................. 45 
6.3  Solo.bsd Device Configuration ......................................................................... 47 
6.4  Save and Run .................................................................................................... 48 
7  Device Configuration ................................................................................................ 49 
7.1  AweSim Processor Device ................................................................................ 51 
7.2  Debugger Device .............................................................................................. 54 
7.3  DIMM Device ................................................................................................... 55 
7.4  Emerald Graphics Device ................................................................................. 61 
7.5  Matrox MGA-G400 PCI/AGP .......................................................................... 65 
7.6  Super IO Devices: Winbond W83627HF SIO / ITE 8712 SIO ........................ 74 
7.7  Memory Device ................................................................................................ 77 
7.8  PCA9548 SMB Device ..................................................................................... 80 
7.9  PCA9556 SMB Device ..................................................................................... 81 
7.10  AMD 8th Generation Integrated Northbridge Device ...................................... 82 
7.11  AMD-8111™ Southbridge Devices – IO Hubs ................................................ 86 
7.12  PCI BUS Device ............................................................................................... 92 
7.13  AMD-8131™ PCI-X® Controller ..................................................................... 94 
7.14  AMD-8132™ PCI-X® Controller ..................................................................... 95 
7.15  PCI-X Test Device ............................................................................................ 97 
7.16  AMD-8151™ AGP Bridge Device ................................................................... 98 
7.17  Raid Device: Compaq SmartArray 5304 ........................................................ 100 
7.18  SMB Hub Device ............................................................................................ 101 
7.19  AT24C Device ................................................................................................ 103 
7.20  EXDI Server Device ....................................................................................... 104 
7.21  USB Keyboard and USB Mouse Devices ....................................................... 105 
7.22  XTR Device .................................................................................................... 106 
7.22.1  Using XTR .............................................................................................. 107 
7.22.1.1 Recoding XTR Trace ................................................................... 107