One of the most challenging problems in post-silicon validation is to identify those errors that cause prohibitive extra delay on speedpaths in the circuit under debug (CUD) and o...
It is increasingly difficult to guarantee the first silicon success for complex integrated circuit (IC) designs. Post-silicon validation has thus become an essential step in the I...
Design debug remains one of the major bottlenecks in the VLSI design cycle today. Existing automated solutions strive to aid engineers in reducing the debug effort by identifying ...
Yibin Chen, Sean Safarpour, Andreas G. Veneris, Jo...
—Bug-free first silicon is not guaranteed by the existing pre-silicon verification techniques. To have impeccable products, it is now required to identify any bug as soon as the ...
Abstract— The behaviour of systems on chip (SOC) is complex because they contain multiple processors that interact through concurrent interconnects, such as networks on chip (NOC...
Kees Goossens, Bart Vermeulen, Remco van Steeden, ...
Network-on-Chip (NoC) is generally regarded as the most promising solution for the future on-chip communication scheme in gigascale integrated circuits. As traditional debug archi...
We present a methodology to debug a SOC by concentrating on its communication. Our extended communication model includes a) multiple signal groups per interface protocol at each I...
—A large part of a modern SOC’s debug complexity resides in the interaction between the main system components. ion-level debug moves the abstraction level of the debug process...