Emulation

Emulation may refer to:

Computing

• Emulator, imitation of behavior of a computer or other electronic system with the help of another type of computer/system
  • Video game console emulator, a program that allows a personal computer or video game console to emulate another video game console
  • In-circuit emulator, a program used to emulate the processor in an embedded system, to aid in debugging
  • Hardware emulation, the use of special purpose hardware to emulate the behavior of a yet-to-be-built system, with greater speed than pure software emulation
  • Emulation for Logic Validation, used to emulate hardware in manufacturing automation
  • Virtual machines

Engineering/Mathematics

• Gaussian process emulator, a special case of the Gaussian process in statistics
• Surrogate model, a model which imitates or emulates a more complicated (usually in terms of computer simulation time) model.
• Response surface methodology, response surface emulation.
• Meta model, emulators are often known as meta-models in engineering.

Other uses

• Contrary to simulation, where a system (e. g. environmental, biological, or technical) is not only imitated with respect to its behavioral appearance but closely modelled in detail.
• ASC Emulation, a football club in Martinique
• Emulation (observational learning), a theory of comparative psychology
• Emulation Lodge of Improvement, a Masonic Lodge of Instruction
• Imitation, an ambition and effort to equal, excel or surpass another
• Socialist emulation, a form of competition that was practiced in the Soviet Union
• Whole brain emulation, aiming at mind uploading

See also

• ST Emulous, a British tugboat
• Semulation, a mix of software simulation and hardware emulation of an electronic system