index.html

---
layout: default
---

<b>Unicorn</b> is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework.

<p>
Highlight features:

<ul>
<li>Multi-architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), m68k, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V, S390x (SystemZ), SPARC, TriCore & x86 (include x86_64).</li>

<li>Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.</li>

<li>Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Pharo, Crystal, Clojure, Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, Java, Go, D, Lua, JavaScript, .NET, Delphi/Pascal & MSVC available.</li>

<li>Native support for Windows & *nix (with macOS, Linux, Android, *BSD & Solaris confirmed).</li>

<li>High performance by using Just-In-Time compiler technique.</li>

<li>Support fine-grained instrumentation at various levels.</li>

<li>Thread-safe by design.</li>

<li>Distributed under free software license GPLv2.</li>
</ul>
</p>

Find in this <a href="BHUSA2015-unicorn.pdf">BlackHat USA 2015 slides</a> more technical details behind Unicorn engine.

<p>
Unicorn is based on <a href="http://www.qemu.org">QEMU</a>, but it goes much further with <a href="/docs/beyond_qemu.html">a lot more to offer</a>.
</p>

<hr>
<div class="posts">
  {% for post in site.tags.news %}
    <article class="post">

      <h2><a href="{{ site.baseurl }}{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h2>

      <div class="date">
      {{ post.date | date: "%B %e, %Y" }}
      </div>

      <div class="entry">
        {{ post.content }}
      </div>
    </article>
  {% endfor %}
</div>