The Great Divide: A Tale of Three Hardware Emulation Architectures

The Great Divide: A Tale of Three Hardware Emulation Architectures
by Lauro Rizzatti on 05-06-2026 at 10:00 am

A Tale of Three Hardware Emulation Architectures

Hardware emulation arose as a necessity out of the needs of the eighties. By the mid-1980s, semiconductor designs had outgrown the practical limits of gate-level simulation. Gate-level simulation delivered accuracy, but at glacial pace; silicon prototypes performed at real-speed but arrived far too late. The industry needed… Read More