After decades of processor performance gains, as predicted by Gordon Moore, improvements in the manufacturing process of integrating circuits are starting to slow down. However, the demand for and expectations from new processors are still growing rapidly. In an attempt to cope with the end of the Moore era, the industry is pivoting toward highly application-specific designs. This development, together with rising design sizes and complexities, creates major challenges for the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. From the design side, much work has been done recently to keep up with these developments. This includes new and much more productive hardware description languages (HDLs) and virtual prototypes (VPs), which allow starting software development sooner. Yet, considering the complete hardware development process, about 50