EDN

FPGA debugging techniques to speed up pre-silicon validation

The increase in complexity of designs being prototyped on FPGAs has led to the increase in need for better debugging techniques. The design being prototyped on the FPGA may be used for performing ...
EDN

Design verification and debugging FPGA implementations

Verification takes as much as 70% of an ASIC's development time and resources. With growing ASIC complexity, verification problems are growing exponentially. Given the high cost of ASIC mask sets, the ...
Electronic Design

Unified Debugging Arrives On New FPGAs With Dual Cortex-A9 Cores

You can now get your hands on Altera's 28nm Arria V and Cyclone V with hard core Arm Cortex-A9 cores announced awhile ago (see Dual Core Cortex-A9 With ECC Finds FPGA Home). Altera's new hardware ...
Design-Reuse

GateRocket Enhances Industry's Most Effective FPGA Debug Solution with New Features to Reduce Design Bring-up Time by 50% or More

Version 5.0 of Rocket Vision® Includes SoftPatch, Auto Compare Features That Enable More Efficient Debug, Cut the Number of Synthesis-to-Place-and-Route Loops BEDFORD, Mass.--February 23, ...
New Electronics

Tachyum completes testing of debugger on its Prodigy FPGA prototype

Tachyum has revealed that it has completed testing of hardware debugging features on the FPGA prototype of its Prodigy Universal Processor. Testing was conducted with the GNU Debugger (gdb), a widely ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Vtech: Bus Performance, FPGA Debug

It has been a long time since I was able to talk about a new verification company, but today I can introduce you to Verification Technology, or Vtech for short. If you do a search for them, you will ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Prototyping Gains Ground

FPGA technology for design prototypes is making new inroads as demands increase for better integration between hardware and software. FPGA prototyping, also known as physical prototyping, has been ...