Debugging Systems-on-Chip

Bart Vermeulen received his MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology in respectively 1997 and 2013. He is currently a Senior Principal in the Central Research and Development organization of NXP Semiconductors, The Netherlands. His research interests include the design, validation and test of robust, distributed architectures for embedded systems. He published 40+ papers and 8 patents.Kees Goossens received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1993 on hardware verification using embeddings of formal semantics of hardware description languages in proof systems. He worked for Philips/NXP Research from 1995 to 2010 on networks on chip for consumer electronics. He is professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where his research focusses on composable, predictable, low-power embedded systems. He published 2 books, 100+ papers and 24 patents.

• Part I Introduction.- Introduction.- Part II The Complexity of debugging system chips.- Post-silicon debugging of a single building block.- Post-silicon debugging of multiple building blocks.- Part III The CSAR debug approach.- CSAR debug overview.- On-chip debug architecture.- Design-for-Debug flow.- Off-chip debugger software.- Part IV Case studies.- Case studies.- Part V Related work, conclusion, and future work.- Related work.- Conclusion and future work.