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Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

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Summary

Unicorn Engine is an open-source, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework inspired by QEMU. It supports ARM, ARM64, M68K, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V, S390x, SPARC, TriCore, and x86/x86-64, with a lightweight API and bindings for many languages. The project emphasizes high performance via just-in-time compilation, instrumentation, and thread-safety, and runs on Windows and Unix-like systems. Since its BlackHat USA 2015 origins, Unicorn has evolved through major releases with new architectures and APIs, supported by sponsors and community contributions.

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