Hardware Emulation becoming more and more affordable

Read: http://www.your-story.org/eve%E2%80%99s-latest-emulator-offers-the-lowest-cost-of-ownership-in-the-industry-62042/

 

With the so called “penny-per-gate” pricing – sure is a marketing gimmick, it is becoming more and more viable to explore low cost emulation stuff. We still see that our customers continue to rely on own, self cooked FPGA boards, but with such innovative business models it may be changing soon..

 

Good job Eve folks – I wonder if they allow sharing “across customers” – say we host one Zebu server at CVC and allow several customers to log-in and pay-per-use!

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