National Sun Yat-sen University Embedded System Laboratory Progress Report

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National Sun Yat-sen University Embedded System
LaboratoryProgress Report
EICE team

• Presenter Chien-Hung Chen
• Tsung-Cheng Lin
• Kuan-Fu Kuo

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Progress

• Communication-centric Debug of Multi-Core
  System-on-Chip (Technical Speech 5/1)
• Bart Vermeulen (NXP Semiconductors)
• NCKU and IEEE CASS Tainan Section Technical
  Speech
• Related Topic paper about NoC
• Introduction OCP-IP Debug socket for 3DG
  Team(5/14)
• Standard Debug Interface Socket Requirements for
  OCD-Compliant SoC (Whitepaper)
• Report Paper on Lab. Seminar (5/15)
• A High-Level Debug Environment for
  Communication-Centric Debug
• Debug Team Reading
• SystemVerilog for Verification(Book)
• Ch6. Randomization (Ongoing)
• Open On-Chip Debugger Specification and Operation
• Ch22. TCL (Tool Command Language) (Ongoing)

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Next Progress

• Synopsys DesignWare VIP (Verification IP) for
  SystemVerilog language
• Verification Models for the Protocol AXI
  interconnect
• OCP-IP White Paper
• OCP TLM(Transaction Level Modeling) Methodology
• SystemC based SoC Communication Modeling for the
  OCP Protocol

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MPSoC Debug for NoC-Based

• Communication-Centric Debug
• Bart Vermeulen1, Kees Goossens1,2
• NXP Semiconductors Research, The Netherlands
• Computer Engineering, Delft University of
  Technology
• (http//homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/kgoossen/index
  .html)
• Transaction-Based Debug
• Xiao Liu, Shan Tang, Qiang Xu
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• (http//www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/qxu/index.htm)

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Communication-Centric Debug

• Communication-centric debug
• Focus debug on the interactions between IPs
  through control of the interconnect
  (communication)

• Processor-centric debug
• Focus debug on control of the IP (Computation)

1 K. Goossens, B. Vermeulen, R. van Steeden,
and M. Bennebroek, ?Transaction-based
communication-centric debug,? in Proc. Int'l
Symposium on Networks on Chip (NOCS). Washington,
DC, USA IEEE Computer Society, May 2007, pp.
95?106.
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• DfD Infrastructure for Communication Debug
• TPRs are controlled by DCI
• Down/Upload functional state using DDI
• EDI(Event distribution interconnect)

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Transaction-Based Debug

• Debug Platform for NoC-based Systems
• C Port Communication Port
• D Port Debug Port
• T Port Trace Port
• MSA Monitor Service Access