Title: Debug Standards Workshop

 

ECSI Workshop at DAC2008

System and SoC Debug

June 8, 2008 (9:00-17:15)
DAC’08 - Anaheim, CA, USA – Room: 303A

 

Updated program at: http://www.dac.com/events/eventdetails.aspx?id=77-167

 

Sponsors:

OCP-IP, ARM, DAFCA, GiDEL, Magillem, Synplicity

 

Workshop Description:

Debug is one of the biggest factors in delaying shipment of a product. The problem is exacerbated with the introduction of multicore technology. SoC-level multicore debug is a topic that has received considerable visibility, due to its importance in improving the verification and analysis of SoCs and improving time to market of silicon products. A fair amount of activity has gone into standardization of the interfaces, features, and methodologies related to multicore debug. There is also considerable discussions and development work going into the standardization of the software interfaces used to debug multicore applications. This represents a challenge in scaling software development tools such as debuggers and simulators to support chips with 10s or 100s of cores. This workshop, based on the two successful workshops organized by ECSI in 2007 and in early 2008, provides an overview into several standards efforts related to multicore debug with representation from IEEE working groups including Nexus Forum, IJTAG (IEEE P1687), as well as working groups within the OCP-IP, Multicore Association, SPIRIT, and Eclipse consortiums. In addition industrial project SPRINT contribution to standardization will be presented. The workshop also shows a vast set of requirements expressed by the system and SoC companies with regard to debug methods and tools. Furthermore, the event will also present and contrast existing commercial debug tools.

 

 

Chairs:

o   Dr Adam Morawiec, ECSI, France – [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chair)

o   Dr Neal Stollon, HDLDynamics, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Co-chair)

 

 

Preliminary Agenda:

 

Session 1: Introduction to Challenges in System and SoC Debug (9:00-9:30 [0h30])

This session will present major problems in the area of debug of complex systems. An overview of emerging solutions and a “topology map” of the existing standardization activities will be presented, as well as their relations to industry initiatives and de facto standards.

   

Presenter: Neal Stollon, HDLDynamics, USA

 

Session 2: Industry Requirements (9:30-11:00 [4 slots of 0h20])

Industry partners from system companies, SoC providers, and IP providers will express their needs for methods, tools, interfaces, and standards for pre-silicon debug of complex multi-core systems. Current practice and available solutions will be discussed, as well as future directions to be undertaken in research, development, and standardization.

 

 

Presenters:

·         LSI LogicGary Delp, LSI Logic, USA

·         Debug IP for SoC Debug – Mark Woods, ARM, USA

·         Freescale – Robert Oshana, Freescale, USA

·         SPRINT Debug Working Group – Requirements from Infineon, ST, NXP on Debug Methods – Michael Velten, Infineon, Munich, Germany

 

 

Break and Networking (11:00-11:15 [0h15])

 

Session 3: Debug Standardisation Activities (11:15-12:45 [5 slots of 0h15])

 

In this session existing active standardization initiatives will be presented together with their achievements, roadmaps, current evolution, and industry support.

 

Presenters:

·         OCP Debug Socket for Multicore Debugging - Neal Stollon, HDLDynamics, USA

·         IEEE Nexus 5001 - Neal Stollon, HDLDynamics, USA

·         SPIRIT IP-XACT Debug WGGary Delp, SPIRIT Consortium, USA

·         POWER.ORG – Chris Ng, IBM, USA (TBC)

·         IEEE 1687 iJTAG - Stylianos Diamantidis, Globetech Solutions & iJTAG 1687 WG

·         Linking the Worlds of SystemC and Eclipse, the GreenSocs VPP Project - Mark Burton, Greensocs, UK

 

Lunch (12:45-13:30 [0h45])

 

Session 4: Debug Tools & Implementations Presentations (13:30-15:45 [8 slots 0h15 each])

 

Available tool solutions will be introduced in this session, these short (10-15min) presentations will be followed by demonstrations in the Session 6.

 

Presenters:

§         ARM RealView Debug Tools - Mark Woods, ARM, USA

§         The Confirma Platform for ASIC, SoC and IP debug in FPGA - Doug Amos, Synplicity, UK

§         Magillem: IP-XACT Flow Control for Debug - Emmanuel Vaumorin, Magillem Design Services, France

§         Post-Silicon System Validation and Debug - Paul Bradley, DAFCA, USA

§         Flexible Debugging of SoC and IP hardware and System Software on the PROC_SoC Platform - Ralph Zak and Shyam Uma Chander, GiDEL, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA

§         Debugging using the SHAPES Virtual PlatformRainer Leupers, Lei Gao, Stefan Kraemer, RWTH-Aachen University, Germany

§         Nexus-5001 Compatible Real-time Trace for SoC Debug - Akilesh Parameswar, Marc Gauthier, Victor Prupis, Tensilica, USA

§         CJTAG Block/Chip Level Verification Engine – Stylianos Diamantidis, Globetech Solutions

 

Break (15:45-16:00 [0h15])

 

Session 5: Panel: Are we developing right debug solutions to tackle with the real challenges of complex MP SoCs? (16:00-16:30)

The panel will gather opinions from all industry sectors on possible future evolutions required to enable efficient SoC debug able to scale to current and future technology. It will discuss the overlaps in standardization activities that make the entire picture of future industry proven standards very difficult to draw…

 

Session 6: Demos + Networking (16:30-17:15)

This session will enable parallel demonstrations of EDA tools, free discussion, and networking between participants of the workshop.

 

 

 

 

 

More information:

Adam Morawiec, ECSI

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

+33 4 76 63 49 34

 

 

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