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To: Scumbria who wrote (65226)	9/22/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, As far as I know, IBM has never successfully brought up a CPU design on an emulator. I'm surprised because Amdahl and Fujitsu have. Quickturn was used for CMOS, and in-house developed emulators developed by design automation departments were used for the ECL machines before that. All the more power to Intel if IBM didn't get there. Emulators do not run at speed. They do run fast enough to test the functionality of compilers and application software. OK, separate speed analysis programs, also in-house developed, were used to measure every path in the machine for races and long paths. Obviously, out of spec. paths were fixed before silicon was started. Tony