Emulation (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Computer sciences 2 Manufacturing automation 3 Political 4 Simulation technology

The word emulation refers to an ambition and effort to equal, excel or surpass another; to compete or rival with some degree of success, especially through imitation.

Emulation may also refer to:

[edit] Computer sciences

• Emulation, imitation of behavior of a computer or other electronic system with the help of another type of computer/system.
• Console emulator, a program that allows a computer or modern console to emulate a video game console.
• In-circuit emulation is used to emulate the processor in an embedded system, to aid in debugging.
• Hardware emulation is the use of special purpose hardware to emulate the behavior of a yet-to-be-built system, with greater speed than pure software emulation.

[edit] Manufacturing automation

• Emulation for Logic Validation is used to emulate the hardware in a manufacturing automation environment during the design phase to aid in PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) logic debugging.

[edit] Political

• Socialist emulation, a form of competition that was practiced in the Soviet Union

[edit] Simulation technology

• The simulation of equipment by entirely artificial means, such as by physical and software modeling. As opposed to simulation by the stimulation of real equipment (such as radar, sonics, instruments and so on) by artificially generated but real signals, such as by generating and then injecting real RF into radar equipment or real acoustic signals into a sonar.
• In statistics, an emulator is a special case of the Gaussian process used to estimate the output of a complex computer program without actually running it.