The proliferation and expansion of multicore architectures is making debug much more difficult and time-consuming, which in turn is increasing demand for more comprehensive system-level tools and ...

This is the third and final article in a series about silicon validation. Part 1 described the silicon validation problem and the basic requirements of an effective and scalable solution. Part 2 ...

The appeal of embedded systems is clear. A high degree of configurability, readily available commercial intellectual property (IP), and the use of well-understood and accepted protocols and bus ...

Embedded designers put microprocessors in everyday products like cars, phones, cameras, TVs, music players, and printers, as well as the communications infrastructure, which the general public doesn’t ...

SpringSoft's VIA Exchange enables custom development and reuse of interoperable applications with the popular Verdi™ Automated Debug System. With open access to the Verdi design knowledge platform and ...

Engineers run simulation tests as usual and generate value dump files into the Verdi FSDB (fast signal database) for failures they want to debug. OnPoint automatically reads in all the appropriate ...

Debug has always been a painful and unavoidable part of semiconductor design and, despite many technological advances, it remains one of the dominant tasks in chip development. At one time, most bugs ...

Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

February 20, 2014. When software engineers have greater visibility into the context of operating-system resources and the execution of multithreaded programs, they are able to accelerate code debug ...

Silicon validation ” proving the chip works correctly at speed and in system under different operating conditions ” is always necessary, even for a “perfect” design. Silicon debug ” finding the root ...