AMD Confidential
User Manual September 12th, 2008
Chapter 7: Device Configuration 53
Figure 7-2: AweSim Processor Logging Properties Dialog
Log Messages
This device produces log messages to the Message Log Window as specified by the
options in the Message Log Windows (see Section 9 “Logging”, on page 137).
Difference from Real Hardware
While the processor device is a faithful simulation of the software-visible portion of an
AMD microprocessor, it is not a model of the specific AMD microprocessor hardware.
Because of this, the processor device is not equivalent in certain areas. Any issu es related
to timing, such as the time to execute a given instruction, will be different. The TLB
models do not exactly match any particular processor, so any software that depends on
exact TLB walking behaviors may not function correctly.