adjective Gaming Slang

cycle-accurate

· adjective · gaming

Emulation so precise it copies the chip clock tick by tick.

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Describes an emulator that reproduces the original hardware down to every single clock cycle, not just every instruction. That extra precision catches timing-dependent tricks and glitches that sloppier emulators miss.

“That glitch only fires on cycle-accurate cores, the fast emulator skips the timing window and it never triggers.”
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cycle-accurate In A Sentence

That glitch only fires on cycle-accurate cores, the fast emulator skips the timing window and it never triggers.

Origin & Usage

Emulation engineering term; emulating hardware down to each individual CPU clock cycle rather than just per instruction.

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