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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (28070)1/22/1998 8:49:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) of 1574199
 
Bill - Re: "Do they not emulate it first before they make their first silicon and run it slowly to see how it works and is/isnot broken?"

They sure do.

Intel was the first major customer for Quickturn systems - they use banks of programmable logic (used to be Xilinx FPGAs) and SUn workststions. The original Pentium was run in emulation mode way back in the 1991/1992 time frame.

(Intel's emulation code must have also had the FDIV error!)

Paul
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