Binary translation: Classification of emulators

This paper introduces the concepts of emulation in general. Emulation is being used today across wildly different platforms and at various levels of a system. Due to this diversity a wide range of different techniques have been used to achieve the goal of emulation. In this work we approach the field by classification of the different kinds of emulation and identifying the methods that are used to overcome the most general problems. The focus will be on emulation and classification, whereas the other forms of binary translation will be shortly described for the sake of contrast and methods will mainly be used as illustration. Exact details of how things work can be found in the works listed in the references.