Effective Debug of Embedded Processor-based Designs

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Overview

In this seminar, you will learn how Questa Codelink accelerates the diagnostic phase of processor-based designs using processor-driven tests.

This seminar includes a product demonstration. If you are running processor-driven tests with hundreds of thousands of lines of test code in digital simulation on your processor-based design, you know how difficult and time consuming it is to figure out what went wrong in a failing simulation. Manually slogging through log.EIS or other processor trace files, assembly listings, symbol tables, and logic simulation waveforms is slow and very inefficient. Questa Codelink provides processor debug views for source/assembly, registers, memories, variables, etc. that are completely synchronized with the Questa/modelsim logic waveforms. You can run Questa Codelink during simulation, and when running Questa Codelink post-simulation, you can step forward and backward through the simulation in a matter of seconds. Questa Codelink connects to either the ARM, MIPS, or IBM PowerPC processor in design signoff model, RTL, or gate form instantiated in a block or chip-level simulation and requires no change to the design or processor models. Simulation results with and without Questa Codelink attached to the simulation are identical.

What You Will Learn

  • To identify and understand the challenges of using embedded code running on the embedded processor for HW verification
  • How Codelink accelerates the diagnostic and debug phase of your processor-based SoC design
  • Advantages of using embedded code for HW verification

About the Presenter

Piotr Luszczak

Technical Marketing Engineer in the Design Verification and Technology division at Mentor Graphics, has more than ten years experience in software development, logic simulation, and design verification. Prior to joining Mentor, Piotr worked for Aldec, Inc. on the development of a VHDL/Verilog simulator and by supporting worldwide customers as a Field Application Engineer. He is currently focused on Mentor’s Questa Codelink SoC functional verification products. Piotr holds an MSEE from the Technical University of Lodz, Poland and a Post Diploma degree in Marketing and Management from the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland.

Who Should Attend

  • HW Verification Engineers of ARM, MIPS, or IBM PowerPC processor-based designs

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Technical Requirements

What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?

Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.

Detailed system requirements

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x or later
  • Netscape 7.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 8
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Windows hardware requirements

  • Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
  • 128MB of RAM

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)

  • Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
  • Safari 2.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

  • Safari 1.x, 2.x
  • Firefox 1.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 7.x or later
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

  • PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
  • 128MB of RAM

Linux:

  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.7.x
  • SeaMonkey 1.0.5
  • Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
  • Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Solaris™

  • Mozilla 1.7
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Additional requirements

  • Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps