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13th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'04)
A Snapshot Method to Provide Full Visibility for Functional Debugging Using FPGA
Kenting, Taiwan
November 15-November 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2235-1
Chin-Lung Chuang, National Central University
Dong-Jung Lu, National Central University
Chien-Nan Jimmy Liu, National Central University
Until now, logic simulators are still the most popular verification tools. Although they can provide full controllability and observability during the verification process, the simulation speed is too slow for large amounts of input patterns. Using hardware emulation such as FPGA can have higher simulation speed. However, it is very hard to debug using this approach due to poor visibility in FPGAs. Therefore, in this paper, we propose another approach to "record" the internal behaviors of a FPGA and "replay" the interesting period of time in a software simulator. In this way, we can still have high simulation speed because most simulation efforts are still finished in FPGA. Moreover, full visibility and better debugging environment can be provided in the software simulation. The experimental results have shown the efficiency of using our approach.
Citation:
Chin-Lung Chuang, Dong-Jung Lu, Chien-Nan Jimmy Liu, "A Snapshot Method to Provide Full Visibility for Functional Debugging Using FPGA," ats, pp.164-169, 13th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'04), 2004
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