One simulator to rule them all, and on an infrastructure run them

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Hiventive runs multiple existing simulators (QEMU, gem5, SystemC) together under a coordinator called sim guru and thin sim disciple wrappers to present a single virtual platform; the demo boots Debian on a RISC‑V + Raspberry Pi mix with GPIO, showing the platform works. Time sync uses a sliding quantum that trades accuracy for speed, IPC imposes ms latency so distributed runs scale but slow with fine‑grain timing, and licenses stay isolated.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:28Hardware simulators
3. 3:02New simulators
4. 3:17Sim Guru
5. 4:43Representation
6. 5:10IP API
7. 6:01Key Steps
8. 8:18Time Synchronization
9. 10:39Advantages
10. 12:40Demo
11. 13:12Quantum
12. 14:46Config File

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