On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Keith Monahan <keithvz at verizon.net> wrote:
  but I think the word "emulate" is really
walking a thin line when we talk
 about this stuff. ?The minimig, for instance, is really an Amiga clone. ?It
 doesn't "emulate" a processor -- it either has a physical hardware
processor
 or a processor core in the FPGA. ?The hardware actually exists physically.
 ?The custom chips logic is physically instantiated and temporarily created
 within the FPGA. 
I have software developer brain damage.  :-)
brian