From Wooden Boards to White Gloves: How FPGA Prototyping and Emulation Became Two Worlds of Verification… and How the Convergence Is Unfolding - Semiwiki
… Once a design was mapped into a sea of programmable logic, internal signals became difficult to access, waveform visibility was limited to compiled internal probes, and debugging required painful recompilation of new or additional sets of probes. …