Intel recently made an unprecedented public challenge to Microsoft and Qualcomm that basically told the latter two companies: if you ship an x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) emulator, we’re ...

With smartphone hardware becoming increasingly powerful while simultaneously boasting power efficiency and integrated network connectivity, news from Computex 2017 that Microsoft and Qualcomm had been ...

Virtualization solutions such as VMware ESX Server use emulation technologies to trick operating systems into seeing hardware that isn’t there. But emulation is also used as a stand-alone technology ...

Mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their supporting infrastructure are driving the system-on-chip (SoC) design challenge with demanding specifications, increasing software content, and ...

Editor’s Note: Lauro Rizzatti went to Russell Klein, director of engineering at Mentor Graphics and a hardware emulation expert, to learn more about hybrid emulation. This column is co-authored by the ...