Co-emulation and debugging of HW/SW-systems

Author

Koch, Gernot ; Kebschull, Udo ; Rosenstiel, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Forschungszentrum Inf., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

1997

fDate

17-19 Sep 1997

Firstpage

120

Lastpage

125

Abstract

Presents a method that allows one to observe and control the emulation of communicating systems consisting of hardware (HW) and software (SW) parts. The approach provides the ability to set breakpoints in either technology, without breaking the protocol or losing data. Systems may contain several SW and HW processes. Each process runs in a separate debugger, while the presented approach provides the necessary synchronization between the processes to preclude loss of data at the communication interfaces due to breakpoints. Therefore it allows the operation to continue after a breakpoint, which is essential for interactive debugging

Keywords

computer debugging; high level synthesis; interactive systems; network interfaces; program debugging; protocols; synchronisation; virtual machines; breakpoints; communicating systems; communication interfaces; data losses; hardware/software coemulation; interactive debugging; process synchronization; protocol; separate debuggers; Clocks; Communication system software; Control systems; Embedded system; Emulation; Hardware; Observability; Protocols; Software debugging; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Synthesis, 1997. Proceedings., Tenth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Antwerp

ISSN

1080-1820

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7949-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSS.1997.621684

Filename

621684