Central processing units

• ARMware
  ARMware
  ARMware is a multi-platform software emulator for ARM-based PDA. It has a built-in dynamic recompiler to translate the ARM machine code to x86 machine code. This recompiler uses SSA form as its intermediate representation. Besides the CPU core emulation, it can also emulate several peripherals,...
  
  

• SPIM
  SPIM
  SPIM is a MIPS processor simulator, designed to run assembly language code for this architecture. The program simulates R2000 and R3000 processors, and was written by James R. Larus while a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
  
  : Open Virtual Platforms' OVPsim
  OVPsim
  OVPsim is a multiprocessor platform emulator that uses dynamic binary translation technology to achieve high simulation speeds. It has public APIs allowing users to create their own processor, peripheral and platform models. Various models are available as source . OVPsim is a key component of the...
  
   500 mips MIPS32 emulator, enables you to develop software on your PC using virtual platforms, emulators including MIPS processors running at up to 500 MIPS
  Instructions per second
  Instructions per second is a measure of a computer's processor speed. Many reported IPS values have represented "peak" execution rates on artificial instruction sequences with few branches, whereas realistic workloads typically lead to significantly lower IPS values...
  
   for MIPS32 processors running many OSes including Linux. OVP is used to build emulators of single MIPS processors or multiple - homogeneous MP or heterogenous MP. See: www.OVPworld.org

• QEMU
  QEMU
  QEMU is a processor emulator that relies on dynamic binary translation to achieve a reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPU architectures....
  
  

• Mac 68K emulator
  Mac 68K emulator
  The Mac 68K emulator was a software emulator built into all versions of the Mac OS for PowerPC. This emulator permitted the running of applications and system code that were originally written for the 680x0 based Macintosh models. The emulator was completely seamless for users, and reasonably...
  
  : For PowerPC
  PowerPC
  PowerPC is a RISC architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM...
  
   Mac OS
  Mac OS
  Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...
  
  

• PearPC
  PearPC
  PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running many PowerPC operating systems, including Mac OS X, Darwin and Linux. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License . It can be executed on Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and other systems based...
  
  
• Rosetta: Apple's emulator for PowerPC processors, built into Mac OS X
• WarpUP
  WarpUP
  WarpUP is a high-speed kernel for PowerPC versions of Amiga.WarpUP forms a hardware abstraction layer between the hardware and software, and ensures that the applications function correctly on PowerPC architecture...
  
  : Amiga system for PowerPC expansion cards built into MorphOS and available for AmigaOS
  AmigaOS
  AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000...
  
  

Full system simulators

• Simics
  Simics
  Simics is a full-system simulator used to run unchanged production binaries of the target hardware at high-performance speeds. Simics was originally developed by the Swedish Institute of Computer Science , and then spun off to Virtutech for commercial development in 1998...
  
  
• CPU Sim
  CPU Sim
  CPU Sim is a software development environment for the simulation of simple computers. It was developed by Dale Skrien to help students understand computer architectures. With this application the user is able to simulate new or existing simple CPUs. Users can create new virtual CPUs with custom...
  
  : A Java application that allows the user to design and create a simple architecture and instruction set and then run programs of instructions from the set through simulation
• GXemul
  GXemul
  GXemul is a computer architectureemulator being developed by Anders Gavare. It isavailable as free software under a revised BSD-style license.In 2005, Gavare changed the name of the software project...
  
  : Framework for full-system computer architecture emulation

Operating system emulators

• SIMH
  SIMH
  SIMH is a highly portable, multi-system emulator which runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenVMS, and other operating systems...
  
  : In Altair 8800
  Altair 8800
  The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU and sold by mail order through advertisements in Popular Electronics, Radio-Electronics and other hobbyist magazines. The designers hoped to sell only a few hundred build-it-yourself kits to hobbyists, and were...
  
   mode, emulates Intel 8080
  Intel 8080
  The Intel 8080 was the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel and was released in April 1974. It was an extended and enhanced variant of the earlier 8008 design, although without binary compatibility...
  
   or Zilog Z80
  Zilog Z80
  The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog and sold from July 1976 onwards. It was widely used both in desktop and embedded computer designs as well as for military purposes...
  
   and CP/M 2.2, 3.0, MP/M

• Wine
  Wine (software)
  Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like...
  
  : For Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
  , BSD, Solaris and MacOS X
• Darwine
  Darwine
  Darwine was a port of the Wine libraries to Darwin and Mac OS X . The Darwine project intended to port and develop Wine as well as other supporting tools that would allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows applications and to provide a Win32 API compatibility at application source code...
  
  : For MacOS X

• Cygwin
  Cygwin
  Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment...
  
  : For Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
  
  

See also

• Comparison of platform virtual machines
• Comparison of application virtual machines
  Comparison of Application Virtual Machines
  This article lists some software virtual machines that are typically used for allowing application bytecode to be portably run on many different computer architectures and operating systems. The application is usually run on the computer using an interpreter or just-in-time compilation...