Special session on “FPGA-based emulation of hardware architectures”

The steady increase of the performance capabilities of FPGA-based emulation systems as well as the enhancement in the software tools for the design flow around FPGA-based emulators has led to an enormous popularity of these systems. It is the goal of this special session: - to provide an overview of the capabilities of state-of-the-art FPGA-based emulators, - to demonstrate the inclusion of FPGA-based emulators into mixed-level, mixed-mode simulations and emulations through application of specific design tools, - to discuss challenging design stories out of different application fields where FPGA-based emulation has been successfully applied.