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Many people think an FPGA is automatically accurate emulation because it's "hardware" and the original console is "hardware". But the FPGAs are based on C soft
by astrange 3y ago
Many people think an FPGA is automatically accurate emulation because it's "hardware" and the original console is "hardware".
But the FPGAs are based on C software emulators because that's where all the knowledge in the world of how to emulate the original system is kept. You can't translate original hardware to Verilog and skip the figuring out how it works process.
- robinsonb5 3y agoThere are a very few cores which are derived from die shots of the original chips - but in the majority of cases you're correct.
- astrange 3y agoMost of the time die shots are used to extract data tables or firmware from ROMs rather than logic. But it's probably happened a few times.
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