On-Chip Instrumentation: Design and Debug for Systems on Chip

✍ Scribed by Neal Stollon (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

On-Chip Instrumentation: Design and Debug for Systems on Chip by: Neal Stollon With each new generation of digital System-on-Chip (SoC) technology, the level of integration, functionality, and complexity provided on a single chip increases significantly and there is a need for better debug solutions. As more processing elements, features and functions are simultaneously being embedded into the silicon, the emerging level of embedded complexity outstrips the capability of standalone Logic analyzer, debugger and emulator based diagnostic tools for embedded designs. This book attempts to fill the need for a comprehensive discussion of on-chip debug instrumentation. It provides an in-depth overview of on chip instrumentation technologies and various approaches taken in adding instrumentation to System on Chip (ASIC, ASSP, FPGA, etc.) design that are collectively becoming known as Design for Debug (DfD). Coverage includes specific design examples and discussion of implementations and DfD tradeoffs in a decision to design or select instrumentation or SoC that include instrumentation. Although the focus is on hardware implementations, software and tools are also discussed in some detail. •Provides readers an invaluable reference on the need, uses, implementations, and systems considerations for adding debug and systems analysis instrumentation to a System on Chip design; •Covers a wide range of techniques, which will be addressed from both an analytic and tradeoff point of view; •Covers both IP and ASP implementations of on chip instrumentation systems, without any bias toward specific products or approaches.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-15
On-Chip Instrumentation Components....Pages 17-30
JTAG Use in Debug....Pages 31-48
Processor System Debug....Pages 49-60
An On-Chip Debug System....Pages 61-83
Bus System Debug....Pages 85-107
Multiprocessor Debugging....Pages 109-115
IEEE 1149.7: cJTAG/aJTAG....Pages 117-135
IEEE P1687 – IJTAG....Pages 137-144
OCP IP Debug Interfaces....Pages 145-167
Nexus IEEE 5001....Pages 169-193
MIPS EJTAG....Pages 195-211
ARM ETM....Pages 213-218
Infineon Multicore Debug Solution....Pages 219-230
EJTAG and Trace in Toshiba TX Cores....Pages 231-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-244

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems;Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design;Measurement Science and Instrumentation