This section provides overview, applications, and principles of emulators. Also, please take a look at the list of 16 emulator manufacturers and their company rankings.
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An emulator is a program that can mimic the behavior of an actual device or software.
In developing a new device, when the actual hardware is not yet completed, and operation tests cannot be conducted using the device, operation checks are conducted on an emulator.
Since emulator is used for testing and modification during the developmental phase, they are used together with debuggers, which are programs for debugging.
A simulator is similar to an emulator and is often confused with an emulator, but they are distinguished as different in function and principle.
Emulators are used to test whether electronically controlled equipment works as designed and to correct any problems found.
Emulators are used to imitate the circuits used in the device, especially when the device has not yet been completed, such as in the developmental stage.
It is mainly used to test microcontrollers, which are the brains of devices, and to run software designed for use on a different platform than the platform at hand. A familiar example of this is when emulators are used to run older-generation software on next-generation game consoles.
Most modern computers are built on a standard structure called the Von Neumann architecture. This means that the basic principle of operation is the same for all of them.
Specifically, the operation is to call an instruction stored in memory, execute it, and write it back to the computer's memory.
Peripherals connected to the computer, such as the mouse, keyboard, display, and audio, are all extensions of this.
Emulators do this by converting binary data written to be executed on the actual device into equivalent binary data to run on another computer.
Since microcontrollers and other computer controls run electronically controlled devices, emulators can mimic any computer-controlled device.
Simulators, which are often confused, mimic only a tiny portion of the software functionality, such as mimicking the interface, but emulators can also strictly mimic hardware behavior.
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Ranking as of January 2023 in United States
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1 | Orr & Orr, Inc. | 100% |
Ranking as of January 2023 Globally
Derivation MethodRank | Company | Click Share |
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1 | Orr & Orr, Inc. | 100% |
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