A reconfigurable design-for-debug infrastructure for SoCs

  • Authors:
  • Miron Abramovici;Paul Bradley;Kumar Dwarakanath;Peter Levin;Gerard Memmi;Dave Miller

  • Affiliations:
  • DAFCA, Inc., Framingham, MA;DAFCA, Inc., Framingham, MA;DAFCA, Inc., Framingham, MA;DAFCA, Inc., Framingham, MA;DAFCA, Inc., Framingham, MA;DAFCA, Inc., Framingham, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we present a Design-for-Debug (DFD) reconfigurable infrastructure for SoCs to support at-speed in-system functional debug. A distributed reconfigurable fabric inserted at RTL provides a debug platform that can be configured and operated post-silicon via the JTAG port. The platform can be repeatedly reused to configure many debug structures such as assertions checkers, transaction identifiers, triggers, and event counters.