Reduce/broadcast computation-enabled switching elements in an emulation network

A reconfigurable hardware modeling device comprising:

• a plurality of reconfigurable hardware modeling circuits, each reconfigurable hardware modeling circuit of the plurality of reconfigurable hardware modeling circuits comprising:
• a model computation subsystem configurable either to model elements of a circuit design, or to serve as a testbench element, or both, and
• a network subsystem comprising:
• network circuitry and signal reduction circuitry, the network circuitry comprising circuitry configurable to perform a signal broadcast function, the signal reduction circuitry configurable to perform a signal reduction function, the signal reduction function being a function of combining a plurality of status signals into a single status signal, the plurality of status signals comprising status signals received from one or more reconfigurable hardware modeling circuits in the plurality of reconfigurable hardware modeling circuits, the signal broadcast function being a function of transmitting the single status signal to one or more other circuits in the reconfigurable hardware modeling device.