Artículo
Long-term on-chip verification of systems with logical events scattered in time
Autor/es | Viejo Cortés, Julián
Villar de Ossorno, José Ignacio Juan Chico, Jorge Millán Calderón, Alejandro Ostúa Arangüena, Enrique Quirós Carmona, Juan |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Tecnología Electrónica |
Fecha de publicación | 2012 |
Fecha de depósito | 2017-07-14 |
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Resumen | Traditional on-chip and off-chip logic analyzers present important shortcomings when used for the longterm
verification of industrial embedded systems, forcing the designer to implement ad hoc verification
solutions. ... Traditional on-chip and off-chip logic analyzers present important shortcomings when used for the longterm verification of industrial embedded systems, forcing the designer to implement ad hoc verification solutions. This paper introduces a suitable solution for long-term verification of FPGA-based designs consisting of a verification core that uses the PicoBlaze microcontroller, dedicated logic and a serial port communication in order to monitor the internal signals of the system in a continuous way. The core design focuses on low resource requirements and has been successfully applied to the verification of a real industrial synchronization platform showing remarkable advantages over commercial on-chip solutions like Xilinx’s ChipScope Pro. Moreover, in order to improve the reusability of this core a software tool has been developed to automatically include the verification core in any specific system. |
Agencias financiadoras | Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC). España |
Identificador del proyecto | TEC2007-61802/MIC |
Cita | Viejo Cortés, J., Villar de Ossorno, J.I., Juan Chico, J., Millán Calderón, A., Ostúa Arangüena, E. y Quirós Carmona, J. (2012). Long-term on-chip verification of systems with logical events scattered in time. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 36 (5), 402-408. |
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