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With their latest Cortex-A processors, and especially the ARMv8 Cortex-A57 processor, ARM has provided the right scalability and performance required for network applications. Porting and developing software for these multicore/multi-cluster designs is, however, not a trivial task and cannot be done as an afterthought. That is the topic that Robert Kaye from ARM and I addressed at SNUG Silicon Valley on March 26. We explained how network software bring up can be accelerated, both by starting much earlier and by having more productive tools, using virtual prototypes. Not only do Virtualizer Development Kits, which are software development kits that use a virtual prototype as target, provide the ideal set of tools and models for the task as evident in the figure below; they also have the ability to simulate a network setup.

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