Method and system for debugging an electronic system

US7072818B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Synplicity, Inc. · US

Inventors

• John Mark Beardslee · Menlo Park, US
• Nils Endric Schubert · San Jose, US
• Douglas L. Perry · San Ramon, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 28, 2000
• Grant date: Jul 4, 2006
• Expiry date: Mar 5, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F30/33
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Techniques and systems for debugging an electronic system having instrumentation circuitry included therein are disclosed. The techniques and systems facilitate analysis, diagnosis and debugging fabricated hardware designs at a Hardware Description Language (HDL) level. Although the hardware designs (which were designed in HDL) have been fabricated in integrated circuit products with limited input/output pins, the invention enables the hardware designs within the integrated circuit products to be comprehensively analyzed, diagnosed, and debugged at the HDL level at speed. The ability to debug hardware designs at the HDL level facilitates correction or adjustment of the HDL description of the hardware designs.