EMUTools Workshop

EMUTools, 1st workshop on Emulation Tools, Methodology and Techniques, is a major event dedicated to emulation tools and methodology, collocated with SIMUTools 2013. Emulators represent a family of tools where real and emulated components interact at various levels and scales with external element. Where simulators aim at evaluating the performance and conformity of models, emulators aim at evaluating that of real components and execution environment. The potential of emulators have been acknowledged, notably as complementary approach to field-operational test, and as a validation and integration technique (or methodology) prior to deployment. Emulators have also recently been subject to an increasing interest from practitioners in various fields of research. Yet, emulation tools have experienced only little dedicated visibility from the community to breed inter-disciplinary collaborative research and exchange of ideas in the very specific and challenging methodologies and techniques required by emulator tools or available in major emulation platforms.

The workshop therefore aims at providing an interaction environment between academic and industrial researchers along with practitioners in the emulation field. EMUTools proposes to address research challenges in the emulation methodologies, architecture, analysis, applicability, performance, practice and platforms. This event also aims as building a bridge between the simulation and emulation communities to foster collaborative research to address common challenges in the complementary fields of emulation and simulation.