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-Unicorn is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework.
-
-Unicorn offers some unparalleled features:
-
-- Multi-architectures: Arm, Arm64 (Armv8), M68K, Mips, Sparc, & X86 (include X86_64).
-- Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.
-- Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Python available.
-- Native support for Windows & *nix (with Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD & Solaris confirmed).
-- High performace by using Just-In-Time compiler technique.
-- Support fine-grained instrumentation at various levels.
-- Thread-safe by design.
-- Distributed under open source license GPL.
-
-Further information is available at http://www.unicorn-engine.org
-
-
-[Compile]
-
-See COMPILE.TXT file for how to compile and install Unicorn.
-
-
-[License]
-
-This project is released under the GPL license.
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+Unicorn Engine
+==============
+
+Unicorn is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework
+based on [QEMU](http://qemu.org).
+
+Unicorn offers some unparalleled features:
+
+- Multi-architecture: ARM, AMM64 (ARMv8), m68k, MIPS, SPARC, and x86 (16, 32, 64-bit)
+- Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API
+- Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Python, Java, and Go
+- Native support for Windows & *nix (with Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD & Solaris confirmed)
+- High performace via Just-In-Time compilation
+- Support for fine-grained instrumentation at various levels
+- Thread-safety by design
+- Distributed under open source license GPL
+
+Further information is available at http://www.unicorn-engine.org
+
+
+Compilation
+-----------
+
+See [COMPILE.TXT](COMPILE.TXT) file for how to compile and install Unicorn.
+
+
+License
+-------
+
+This project is released under the GPL license.