Yes. This was intentional. In the microACE model, the ACE component on the SA core is critical in that it configures the data structures needed by the microcode, patches symbols, handles exception packets, exports an API for user applications etc. Without the core component the functionality of the microACE is quite incomplete. While it is possible to write ind files to get the microcode running, it is relatively difficult to test/use all the features without the core component. It is also easy to change and misconfigure something using the ind files. For this reason, the ACE samples were extensively QA'ed on hardware only. We do ship the workbench projects running on hardware. All customers of the SDK were supposed to get associated reference hardware. So not shipping the ind files was not considered an issue. Uday -----Original Message----- From: Mirko Benz [mailto:benz@mephisto.inf.tu-dresden.de] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 2:30 AM To: ixp1200@CS.Princeton.EDU Subject: [ixp1200] SDK 2 ACE sample simulation Hi, The ACE samples supplied with SDK 2 do not contain any simulation initialization scripts (*.ind). Therefore, one can not use the workbench for simulation and evaluation of these samples. Is this intended? Thanks, Mirko University of Technology Dresden, Germany