Title Debugging at the electronic system level / Frank Rogin, Rolf Drechsler

Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 199 pages) Contents Debugging at the Electronic System Level; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Esl Design and Verification; Chapter 3: Early Error Detection; Chapter 4: High-Level Debugging and Exploration; Chapter 5: Learning about the Design; Chapter 6: Isolating Failure Causes; Chapter 7: Summary and Conclusion; Appendix A: Fdc Language; Appendix B: Debug Pattern Catalog; References; List of Acronyms; Index of Symbols; Index Summary 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 Debugging at the Electronic System Level 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record In Springer eBooks Subject Debugging in computer science. Integrated circuits -- Verification. Computer hardware description languages. Computer software -- Verification. Computer programs -- Verification. COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory. COMPUTERS -- Computer Engineering. COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General. Ingénierie. Computer programs -- Verification Computer hardware description languages Computer software -- Verification Debugging in computer science Integrated circuits -- Verification Form Electronic book Author Drechsler, Rolf. LC no. 2010929863 ISBN 9789048192557 9048192552 9789048192540 9048192544

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