Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Debugging Techniques for Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware
Napa California
April 21-April 23
ISBN: 0-7695-0375-6
Testing dynamically reconfigurable systems imposes new challenges which require special treatment. We present tools and techniques we developed for debugging a dynamically reconfigurable system that performs run-time constant propagation optimizations. An application for monitoring the effect of run-time specialization is presented and we show how we adapted standard testability techniques to evaluate the performance of specialized circuits. We also outline how HDLs that capture reconfiguration at a high level can assist with debugging.