By: ed

Lauro, as a number of systems engineers and architects have accurately pointed out, at 45nm and below all chips are low power. Almost all are multicore, as well, and an increasing number use multiple processors. Trying to deal with those implementations without emulation is much more time-consuming. What’s particularly interesting is the trajectory for software engineers to use emulation, as well. The question now is whether they’ll actually pay for it up front, which they haven’t done in the past, or create a business model for cloud-based emulation services. –Ed