Debugging Techniques for Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware

  • Authors:
  • Nicholas McKay;Satnam Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FCCM '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

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.