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Re:What is the difference between simulation and emulation? by mytailorisrich on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:00AM (#32518202)
I'd say emulation is to replicate a known behaviour of a system while simulation is to build an internal odel of a system in order to observe its behaviour.

For instance, a CPU emulator is only concerned with executing instructions in the same way as the actual CPU whereas a CPU simulator would be a internal model of the CPU at some level of details (e.g. transistor level) in order to observe how it behaves (which you perhaps don't know).

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