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Toto
Toto

Reputation: 65

Hardware Simulation

I'm working on a software project intended for recuperating old specific hardware, mostly for non-for-profit organizations and poor schools.

I need a way to simulate old hardware so I can test the application before shipping it out.

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 849

Answers (4)

Himadri Choudhury
Himadri Choudhury

Reputation: 10353

I'm not sure exactly what the question is asking for. I think you are asking for a way to emulate certain HW?

If that is the case, I've used QEMU in the past, and it has worked great. QEMU is an open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

Upvotes: 3

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 11509

Well. If the old hardware is communicating via RS232, then write a class that wraps the RS232 commands and make the class inject the messages the old hardwares would respond. In your program, work against that class instead of real rs232-port and just change instance to real rs232 before shipping.

I have done this succesfully in a project and it worked out really good and its not that complicated that you can think.

Upvotes: 0

Anonymous
Anonymous

Reputation: 18631

Use virtual machines? Prepare the images reflecting (more or less) the state of the target machines (speed, hardware, etc). And use them for testing the deployment?

Upvotes: 1

Nick Fortescue
Nick Fortescue

Reputation: 44153

You might want to check out Emulator Zone, and emulator is a good google search term you might not have tried.

Upvotes: 0

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