Method and user interface for debugging an electronic system

US7356786B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Synplicity, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Nils Endric Schubert · San Jose, US
• John Mark Beardslee · Menlo Park, US
• Gernot Heinrich Koch · Philippsburg, DE
• Olaf Poeppe · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 9, 2004
• Grant date: Apr 8, 2008
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2025

Classification

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

Abstract

Techniques and systems for analysis, diagnosis and debugging fabricated hardware designs at a Hardware Description Language (HDL) level are described. Although the hardware designs (which were designed in HDL) have been fabricated in integrated circuit products with limited input/output pins, the techniques and systems enable 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.