⊿ Point. {R} Glossary. ◢ Keyword: E. ▰ Sources. 〓 Books [B] ◥ University. {q} PhD. ⏫ THEMES. ⏫ Big Data. [B] Big Data. ⚫ USA. ↂ EndNote. ☝️ BD Dummies. Emulation (hardware) Emulating hardware devices in IC design Ikos NSIM-64 Hardware simulation accelerator. In integrated circuit design, hardware emulation is the process of imitating the behavior of one or more pieces of hardware (typically a system under design) with another piece of hardware, typically a special purpose emulation system.
The emulation model is usually based on a hardware description language (e.g. Verilog) source code, which is compiled into the format used by emulation system. Sometimes hardware emulation can be confused with hardware devices such as expansion cards with hardware processors that assist functions of software emulation, such as older daughterboards with x86 chips to allow x86 OSes to run on motherboards of different processor families. Introduction[edit] The largest fraction of silicon integrated circuit respins and steppings are due at least in part to functional errors and bugs inadvertently introduced at RTL stage of the design process.
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