Simulate Atom based pc environment

Question

I need to run & test an application on Atom cpu based tablet PC. I tried remote debugging ability of VS2010 but it only handles exceptions.

My multi-threaded application's behaviors are totally different on that tablet PC. Is there any way to simulate Atom cpu -low speed, single core, etc- on my desktop environment?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use power saving settings to limit the CPU speed, and CPU affinity to prevent your process from using all cores. I don't know of an easy way to artificially limit use of CPU caches.

Configuring power saving settings would be more appropriate for SuperUser.

For affinity, you can p/invoke SetProcessAffinityMask

However, the Atom has a very different internal architecture, so merely dialing down clock speed will not be a very accurate simulation.