In-Circuit System-on-Chip Verification and Debugging Environment

This paper presents in-circuit system-on-chip verification and debugging environment. To maximize the emulation speed, the software part is compiled natively for the host computer and the hardware part is mapped into FPGA. The two parts communicate with each other in transaction level. The operation of the hardware part and the software part is recorded independently during the emulation, and after the emulation is over, they are merged in a waveform to give user a unified view that covers both hardware and software.