Of the half-dozen semiconductor- designing companies I've worked for, all of them used FPGAs for emulation. - modern FPGAs are huge. - when an asic design wo

Of the half-dozen semiconductor- designing companies I've worked for, all of them used FPGAs for emulation. - modern FPGAs are huge. - when an asic design won't fit in a single FPGA, it's usually possible to partition the design into multiple FPGAs - software emulation/ simulation is not guaranteed to be "more accurate". FPGAs can interact with a real-world environment in ways that simulation simply cannot - simulations run 1000s of times slower than FPGAs. Months of simulation time can be covered in minutes on the FPGA Edit: to be clear, they all use simulation too, but FPGAs are used to accelerate the verification process