Correct, FPGA simulation of a 3.0Ghz processor means you'd be waiting on the order of weeks to boot into linux. I work for a company that works with Intel on n

Correct, FPGA simulation of a 3.0Ghz processor means you'd be waiting on the order of weeks to boot into linux. I work for a company that works with Intel on new things. Lets just say the FPGA's they use are... really expensive, and despite being capable of simulating a design fast, are still very slow. By expensive I found out $20 million per FPGA simulator was on the low end. And I think that would simulate at the rate of about 10mhz for the amount of transistors/internal setup present. Fpgas are cool, but a poor choice for fixing this issue. You could probably do it for up to an 80386 with some $400ish dollar FPGA's.