On-Chip Instrumentation: Design and Debug for Systems on Chip (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781441975621)

This book 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). On chip instruments are hardware based blocks that are added to a design for the specific purpose and improving the visibility of internal or embedded portions of the design (specific instruction flow in a processor, bus transaction in an on chip bus as examples) to improve the analysis or optimization capabilities for a SoC. DfD is the methodology and infrastructure that surrounds the instrumentation. 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 will be on hardware implementations, software and tools will be discussed in some detail.

Author: Neal Stollon
ISBN-10: 1441975624
ISBN-13: 9781441975621
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2010
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d