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categories:
- Computer Architecture
- Hardware
tags: [HDL, nand-to-tetris]
---
# Hardware simulation
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In order to test our [HDL ](/Computer_Architecture/Hardware_Description_Language.md ) files we load them into the hardware simulator program shown below:
< img src = "/home/thomas/repos/computer_science/_img/hardware-simulator.png" width = "500" >
There are several simulation options:
- interactive
- script-based (where we load a test script into the simulator along with the HDL file
- comparative (running the HDL program against our intended output specified in the `.out` file)
