| Name | Type | last Δ | target | license | IPS | source |
| ARMISS | ISS | 2008 | ARM | proprietary | ? | [17] |
| ARMulator | ISS | 2003 | ARM | proprietary | ? | [18], [19] |
| Bochs | FSE | 2020 | x86 | LGPL | ? | [26], [27] |
| gem5 | FSS | 2020 | Alpha, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC V, SPARC, x86, Caches, Busses, NoCs, ... | BSD like | 0.2-3 MIPS | [3], [8], [9], [10] |
| MARSSx86 | FSS | 2019 | x86 | open-source | 0.15-0.3 MIPS | [24], [25] |
| or1kiss | ISS | 2020 | OpenRISC 1000 | Apache License 2.0 | 10-50 MIPS | [16] |
| OVPsim | FSS | 2020 | ARM, Synopsys ARC, MIPS, PowerPC, ... | parts are open-source, free of charge for non-commercial use | up to 1000 MIPS | [8], [15] |
| PTLsim | FSS | 2012 | x86 | GNU GPLv2 | ? | [8], [13] |
| QEMU | FSE | 2020 | ARM, Microblaze, SPARC, PowerPC, x86 | GPLv2 | 50-200 MIPS | [10], [22], [23] |
| Shade | ISS | 1994 | SPARC, MIPS | proprietary | ? | [21] |
| SimpleScalar | FSS | 2011 | Alpha, ARM, PowerPC, x86, Caches | open-source, custom license | 0.35-10 MIPS | [8], [14] |
| sniper | ISS | 2020 | x86 | MIT | ? | [28] |
| Synopsys DesignWare ARC nSIM | ISS | 2020 | Synopsys ARC | proprietary | 20MIPS (interpretive), 475 MIPS (JIT) | [20] |
| Wind River Simics | FSS | 2020 | Alpha, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, x86 | proprietary | ? | [8], [11], [12] |