Plurality’s development tools include enable a gradual approach from exploring parallel decomposition with the emulator to precise evaluation of the performance of a 256-core system with the simulator. The toolset includes:

• A cycle-accurate simulator that runs on an x86 platform (Linux and Windows OS)
• A GCC cross-compiler (v. 4.0.1)
• GNU Binutils v. 2.18
• A cross-debugger that works within the Eclipse development environment, and
• An emulator supporting Linux and Windows native environments.