Andreas_Wolf wrote:
I'm far from being a hardware specialist, but as far as I know, you don't actually load any software into an FPGA. What's essentially happening instead is that during configuration, the FPGA's locic gates are wired according to the behaviour specified in the HDL file. The main difference between ASIC and FPGA is simply the re-configurability of the FPGA's logic gates and their wiring. That's why I wouldn't call it emulation.