“Post silicon debug of SOC designs”

Singh, Virendra and Fujita, Masahiro (2011) “Post silicon debug of SOC designs”. In: 2011 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC), 26-28 Sept. 2011, Taipei, p. 18.

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Abstract

Continuous advances in VLSI technology have made implementation of very complicated systems possible. Modern System-on -Chips (SoCs) have many processors, IP cores and other functional units. As a result, complete verification of whole systems before implementation is becoming infeasible; hence it is likely that these systems may have some errors after manufacturing. This increases the need to find design errors in chips after fabrication. The main challenge for post-silicon debug is the observability of the internal signals. Post-silicon debug is the problem of determining what's wrong when the fabricated chip of a new design behaves incorrectly. This problem now consumes over half of the overall verification effort on large designs, and the problem is growing worse.Traditional post-silicon debug methods concentrate on functional parts of systems and provide mechanisms to increase the observability of internal state of systems. Those methods may not be sufficient as modern SoCs have lots of blocks (processors, IP cores, etc.) which are communicating with one another and communication is another source of design errors. This tutorial will be provide an insight into various observability enhancement techniques, on chip instrumentation techniques and use of high level models to support the debug process targeting both inside blocks and communication among them. It will also cover the use of formal methods to help debug process.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	2011 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre
Date Deposited:	26 Dec 2011 07:55
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2018 12:04
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/42894

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