The IBM POWER9 Functional Simulator is a simulation environment developed by 
IBM. It is designed to provide enough POWER9 processor complex functionality to 
allow the entire software stack to execute, including loading, booting and 
running a little endian Linux environment. The intent for this tool is to 
educate, enable new application development, and to facilitate porting of 
existing Linux applications to the POWER9 architecture. While the IBM POWER9 
Functional Simulator serves as a full instruction set simulator for the POWER9 
processor, it may not model all aspects of the IBM Power Systems POWER9 hardware 
and thus may not exactly reflect the behavior of the POWER9 hardware.


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