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 ====== Emulation ======
-Emulation, or specifically hardware emulation attempts to imitate the behavior of a device or platform to verify and validate firmware and/or software. Hardware emulation is typically a part of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workflow.
+Emulation, or specifically hardware emulation attempts to imitate the behavior of a device or platform to verify and validate firmware and/or software. Hardware emulation is typically a part of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workflow. It is more accurate than simulation and works well for very complicated designs (such as those found in VLSI).
+For embedded systems, emulators are often used in ICE, or in-circuit emulation.
+===== Weatherbox Firmware Emulator =====
+The SCEL Weatherbox firmware comes with a built in emulator that uses [[ https://github.com/buserror/simavr | simavr]] as the core emulation model. Included is also a thin layer over the simavr model which uses the arduino bootloader to allow the emulation model to self program itself.
+{{ :weatherbox:emulation:emulator_block_diagram.png?200 |}}
+Documentation on how to run the emulator can be found [[https://github.com/scel-hawaii/weatherbox-firmware/blob/master/emu/README.md | here]].
+===== Further Reading =====
+  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_emulation
+  - http://electronicdesign.com/eda/11-myths-about-hardware-emulation
+  - http://electronicdesign.com/test-measurement/hardware-emulation-weapon-mass-verification