Intel® Software Development Emulator Release Notes

2020-10-05 version 8.59.0

• Added emulation for Intel® Key Locker instructions in Intel® Tiger Lake CPU.
• Added emulation for Intel® AVX VNNI instructions in Intel® Alder Lake CPU.
• Added application debugger add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017*
• Updated the CPUID definition for a few CPUs.
• Fixed issues in parsing debug information.
• Fixed issues in the emulation of new instructions.
• This release includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version of Intel® Software Development Emulator (Intel® SDE)

2020-07-05 version 8.56.0

• Added emulation for Intel® AMX instructions in Intel® Sapphire Rapids CPU.
• Added support for running Intel® SDE on macOS machines with SIP (system integrity protection) enabled.
• Dropped the support for running 32 bits applications on macOS machines.
• Added emulation for Intel® TSX Suspended Load Address Tracking instructions.
• Updated the CPUID definition for a few CPUs.
• Fixed issues in the emulation of new instructions.
• This release includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version of Intel® Software Development Emulator (Intel® SDE).

2020-03-26 version 8.50.0

• Fixed the emulation of instructions for the Intel® Tiger lake CPU. 
   

2020-03-17 version 8.49.0

• Added support for running Intel® SDE on the latest OS versions. 
• Added emulation for AVX512_BF16 instructions in Intel® Cooper lake CPU.
• Added emulation for the Intel® Tiger lake CPU.
• Dropped the emulation for Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX).
• Dropped the emulation for Intel® Hardware Lock Elision (Intel® HLE), the Intel® Restricted Transactional Memory (Intel® RTM) is fully supported.
• Improved Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX) statistics.
• Updated the emulation for the Intel® CET system call on Linux*.
• Fixed issues in the emulation of new instructions.
• Added code-pattern analysis tool to detect misaligned branches that might incur significant performance issues.
• Added improvements and additional alarms to the controller module.
• This release includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version of Intel® Software Development Emulator (Intel® SDE).
   

2019-03-11 version 8.35.0

• Added emulation for setting the trap bit in the EFLAGS (Linux* only).
• Fixed the option to detach from running with Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX) statistics.
• Fixed some issues related to running on machines with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) native instructions.
• Included functional and security updates. Users should update to Intel® Software Development Emulator (Intel® SDE) latest version.

2019-02-07 version 8.33.0

• Added emulation support for a few new CPUs (Tremont, Cascade lake and Ice lake server).
• Added support for running Intel® SDE on the latest OS versions.
• Fixed a few issues in the emulation of CET instructions.
• Added emulation to the CET system call on Linux*.
• Added an option to dump the disassembly of various tools in AT&T syntax.
• Fixed small issues in the emulation of a few instructions.
• Included functional and security updates. Users should update to Intel SDE latest version.

2018-01-30 version 8.16.0

• Added the emulation to the control-flow enforcement technology.
• Added the '-future' chip knob, this knob allow executing instructions that will be available in future CPUs.
• Fixed a few issues related to the emulation of the XSAVE family of instructions.
• Changed the default behavior of chip-check on Windows® systems to exclude NTDLL from the checks.
• Added an option to emulate double precision vector instructions as single precision operations.

2017-10-23 version 8.12.0

• Added support for additional Intel® AVX-512 instructions introduced in the next ICL (Ice Lake) CPU.
• Added support to run Intel® SDE on Sierra macOS* (10.13). Refer to the main Intel SDE page for system configuration instructions.
• Added improvements to the Intel SDE controller.
• Fixed some issues related to tracing multi-threaded workloads with self-modifying-code.

2017-08-06 version 8.9.0

• Fixed controller issues with handling some corner use cases.
• Added support for running on latest Linux kernels.
• Fixed issues with running applications on Intel® AVX-512 hosts.
• Fixed some issues related to handling signals in application running in macOS*.

2017-06-08 version 8.5.0

• Added emulation support to the KNM CPU (Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor formerly known as Knights Mill).

2017-05-23 version 8.4.0

• Added a few Mix histogram tool improvements.
• Added support for running with the latest OS versions on the 6th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family formerly known as Skylake CPU.
• Stability improvements for running applications in macOS*.
• Augmented the support for tracing multi-process workloads.
• Multiple tracing and emulation bug fixes.

2017-01-23 version 7.58.0

• Added support to run Intel SDE on Sierra macOS* (10.12). Refer to the main Intel SDE page for system configuration instructions.
• Added emulation support for the vector instructions for deep learning. There instructions are supported under the -knm chip knob.
• Added an option to run Intel SDE with the host CPUID. This is done by using the -use-host-cpuid knob.
• Added a few improvements to the mix histogram tool.

2016-07-07 version 7.49.0

• Added an option to print large numbers in Mix output with 1000's separator (use with '-num-grouping' knob).
• Improved the emulation of Intel® TSX and made it more accurate and closer to the hardware functionality.
• Fixed a few issues related to capture and replay of applications running in Windows® systems.
• Added support for GO applications.

2016-05-09 version 7.45.0

• Added an analysis tool to report statistics about memory operation that cross cache lines.
• Integrated the pinplay technology for program record and replay.

2016-03-03 version 7.41.0

• Solved some issues related to running applications in macOS*.
• Added an analysis tool to report statistics about the VPCONFLICT instructions.
• Fixed the emulation of CPUID when running on hosts with the 4th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family formerly known as Haswell CPU.

2016-01-18 version 7.39.0

• Added support for dynamically dumping the Mix stats using controller events.
• Fixed the option to collect Intel® TSX statistics using the controller and terminate the run with early-out.