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Hardware emulation has become a mainstay of most verification strategies. Why, then, has conventional wisdom held that the hardware emulation market will never rise beyond $300 million in revenue and has a limited future growth?

It seems that one industry influencer disagrees. Gary Smith EDA, the leading provider of market intelligence and advisory services for global Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Electronic System Level (ESL) design, forecasts hardware emulation growth of about 25% a year until 2017. It anticipates a total market size of nearly $1 billion by 2017, as illustrated in the following chart:

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