Hardware simulation kit for beam instrumentation

For beam instrumentation front-end software consolidation in the CERN-PS the AB-BDI-SW section has launched a campaign in collaboration with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna (Russia). This consolidation is to a large extent a re-engineering of legacy front-end software of the running CERN-PS machine. This raises the following issues: standardization, simulation of non active timing events, simulation of non available hardware, and backward compatibility. This paper describes a beam instrumentation hardware simulation, which is used to develop, test and validate instrumentation software, which are disconnected from the real hardware and machine timings. (authors)