Shownotes
Simulation runtime stops scaling long before your gate count does. Somewhere past a few hundred million gates, the weekend regression becomes the critical path, and the decision to move to emulation stops being academic.
In this episode we host Frank Schirrmeister, Executive Director of Strategic Programs, System Solutions at Synopsys, who has worked across emulation and hardware-assisted verification for most of his career.
What we cover:
The real decision boundary between simulation, emulation, and FPGA prototyping, and the workloads where each one is the wrong tool.
Where emulation earns…