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2.1   Prerequisites

To create your own device models, you need the following:

• General programming skills, and some knowledge about hardware, low-level programming and device drivers.
• Some general ideas about device modeling (this document).
• A build environment for Simics modules, described in the Simics Programming Guide.
• Documentation on how to use your chosen implementation language (typically DML) to write Simics device models (see the DML Reference Manual, the DML Tutorial, and the Simics Programming Guide).
• Documentation of the Simics API, found in the Simics Reference Manual.

The Simics User Guide contains an overview of the documentation that is available for Simics.

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