TY - GEN
T1 - A low-cost SOC debug platform based on on-chip test architectures
AU - Lee, Kuen-Jong
AU - Liang, Si Yuan
AU - Su, Alan
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - While the complexity of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design keeps growing rapidly today the need for an efficient approach to catch design errors at silicon stage has become an urgent issue. In this paper we present a platform for silicon debugging that makes use of an existing test architecture and thus can provide many powerful debug features while requiring very low extra overhead. It supports multi-core debugging for general purpose cores in an SOC chip with the capabilities of on-line tracing, hardware breakpoint insertion and cycle-based stepping. An automatic design tool is also developed to cooperate with the debug platform. Together users can easily control debug operations and examine trace results to efficiently identify the root cause of failures in the silicon.
AB - While the complexity of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design keeps growing rapidly today the need for an efficient approach to catch design errors at silicon stage has become an urgent issue. In this paper we present a platform for silicon debugging that makes use of an existing test architecture and thus can provide many powerful debug features while requiring very low extra overhead. It supports multi-core debugging for general purpose cores in an SOC chip with the capabilities of on-line tracing, hardware breakpoint insertion and cycle-based stepping. An automatic design tool is also developed to cooperate with the debug platform. Together users can easily control debug operations and examine trace results to efficiently identify the root cause of failures in the silicon.
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U2 - 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398067
DO - 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398067
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77949622703
SN - 9781424452200
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009
SP - 161
EP - 164
BT - Proceedings - IEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009
T2 - IEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009
Y2 - 9 September 2009 through 11 September 2009
ER -