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An Embedded Multi-Resolution AXI Bus Tracer for SOC Development

Debugging in the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) environment is a challenge since it was hard to observe their signals on a chip. How to obtain the chip internal signals to help chip designers effective to verify and debug has become an important issue.It is impractical to observe their signals on output pins due to pin number limitation. The conventional solution is to embed a monitor within the hardware for capturing the signals in real time and storing them in a on-chip trace memory.
This thesis shows how the embedded multi-resolution AXI Bus Tracer can enable users to achieve the SoC debugging and performance evaluation efficiently, and it can trace the AXI Signals on the AMBA 3.0 AXI environment. Users can dynamically adjust the tracking resolution during the program execution, and we also provide an effective encoding algorithm for compressing the trace data. With our trace analysis software, we provide the detail information ranging from detail signal waveforms to transaction level waveforms, and transfer the trace signals into Value Change Dump (VCD) file. We also show several pie charts to analyze the portion of transfer types. In our work, we provide a synthesizable hardware to embed SOC for capturing signals. Then traced information through decompress and analysis can make users analyze system debugging and performance evaluation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0721110-002943
Date21 July 2010
CreatorsChiang, Cheng-lung
ContributorsPao-Ann Hsiung, Pei-Sheng Su, Chih-Tsun Huang, Ing-Jer Huang, Kuen-Jong Lee
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0721110-002943
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