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Debugging at the Electronic System Level


Debugging at the Electronic System Level



von: Frank Rogin, Rolf Drechsler

96,29 €

Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 17.06.2010
ISBN/EAN: 9789048192557
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 200

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Debugging becomes more and more the bottleneck to chip design productivity, especially while developing modern complex integrated circuits and systems at the Electronic System Level (ESL). Today, debugging is still an unsystematic and lengthy process. Here, a simple reporting of a failure is not enough, anymore. Rather, it becomes more and more important not only to find many errors early during development but also to provide efficient methods for their isolation. In <EM>Debugging at the Electronic System Level</EM> the state-of-the-art of modeling and verification of ESL designs is reviewed. There, a particular focus is taken onto SystemC. Then, a reasoning hierarchy is introduced. The hierarchy combines well-known debugging techniques with whole new techniques to improve the verification efficiency at ESL. The proposed systematic debugging approach is supported amongst others by static code analysis, debug patterns, dynamic program slicing, design visualization, property generation, and automatic failure isolation. All techniques were empirically evaluated using real-world industrial designs. Summarized, the introduced approach enables a systematic search for errors in ESL designs. Here, the debugging techniques improve and accelerate error detection, observation, and isolation as well as design understanding.
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements.
1. INTRODUCTION. 2. ESL DESIGN AND VERIFICATION. 3. EARLY ERROR DETECTION. 4. HIGH-LEVEL DEBUGGING AND EXPLORATION. 5. LEARNING ABOUT THE DESIGN. 6. ISOLATING FAILURE CAUSES. 7. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. Appendix A. FDC Language. Appendix B. Debug Pattern Catalog.- References. List of Acronyms. Index of Symbols. Index.
Debugging becomes more and more the bottleneck to chip design productivity, especially while developing modern complex integrated circuits and systems at the Electronic System Level (ESL). Today, debugging is still an unsystematic and lengthy process. Here, a simple reporting of a failure is not enough, anymore. Rather, it becomes more and more important not only to find many errors early during development but also to provide efficient methods for their isolation. In <EM>Debugging at the Electronic System Level</EM> the state-of-the-art of modeling and verification of ESL designs is reviewed. There, a particular focus is taken onto SystemC. Then, a reasoning hierarchy is introduced. The hierarchy combines well-known debugging techniques with whole new techniques to improve the verification efficiency at ESL. The proposed systematic debugging approach is supported amongst others by static code analysis, debug patterns, dynamic program slicing, design visualization, property generation, and automatic failure isolation. All techniques were empirically evaluated using real-world industrial designs. Summarized, the introduced approach enables a systematic search for errors in ESL designs. Here, the debugging techniques improve and accelerate error detection, observation, and isolation as well as design understanding.
Currently, no other book is known to us that considers debugging for ESL designs Debugging is still a manual and unsystematic process. Every technique, that helps the designer to improve and accelerate debugging, is welcome The book presents a hierarchy of novel and state-of-the-art debugging techniques. The continuous application of these techniques improves the verification efficiency at ESL There are only a few books about debugging in general Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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