Unicorn

Jul 20, 2023

Unicorn CPU emulator framework

Unicorn is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework based on QEMU.

Unicorn offers some unparalleled features

  • Multi-architecture ARM, ARM64 ARMv8, M68K, MIPS, SPARC, and X86 16, 32, 64-bit
  • Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API
  • Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Perl, Rust, Ruby, Python, Java, MSVC, .NET, Go, Delphi/Free Pascal and Haskell.
  • Native support for Windows & *nix with Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD & Solaris confirmed
  • High performance via Just-In-Time compilation
  • Support for fine-grained instrumentation at various levels
  • Thread-safety by design
  • Distributed under free software license GPLv2


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