Simics comes with several guides and manuals, which will be briefly described here. All documentation can be found in [simics]/doc as Windows Help files (on Windows), HTML files (on Unix) and PDF files (on both platforms). The new Eclipse-based interface also includes Simics documentation in its own help system.
These guides describe how to install Simics and provide a short description of an installed Simics package. They also cover the additional steps needed for certain features of Simics to work (connection to real network, building new Simics modules, ...).
These guides focus on getting a new user up to speed with Simics, providing information on Simics features such as debugging, profiling, networks, machine configuration and scripting.
This is an alternative User Guide describing Simics and its new Eclipse-based graphical user interface.
These guides provide more specific information on the different architectures simulated by Simics and the example machines that are provided. They explain how the machine configurations are built and how they can be changed, as well as how to install new operating systems. They also list potential limitations of the models.
This guide explains how to extend Simics by creating new devices and new commands. It gives a broad overview of how to work with modules and how to develop new classes and objects that fit in the Simics environment. It is only available when the DML add-on package has been installed.
This tutorial will give you a gentle and practical introduction to the Device Modeling Language (DML), guiding you through the creation of a simple device. It is only available when the DML add-on package has been installed.
This manual provides a complete reference of DML used for developing new devices with Simics. It is only available when the DML add-on package has been installed.
This manual provides complete information on all commands, modules, classes and haps implemented by Simics as well as the functions and data types defined in the Simics API.
This guide describes the cycle-accurate extensions of Simics (Micro-Architecture Interface or MAI) and provides information on how to write your own processor timing models. It is only available when the DML add-on package has been installed.
These files are located in Simics's main directory (i.e., [simics]). They list limitations, changes and improvements on a per-version basis. They are the best source of information on new functionalities and specific bug fixes.
This document is available on the Virtutech website at http://www.simics.net/support. It answers many questions that come up regularly on the support forums.
The Simics Support Forum is the main support tool for Simics. You can access it at http://www.simics.net.
Simics uses Python as its main script language. A Python tutorial is available at http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/tut/tut.html. The complete Python documentation is located at http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/.