Conference Program    Technical Session

TUESDAY, July 25, 2006, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Room: 307
TOPIC AREA:  SYSTEM LEVEL AND EMBEDDED
(of special interest to designers)

   SESSION 2
  Special Session: Why Doesn't My System Work?
  Chair: Bart Vermeulen - Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  Organizers: Erik Jan Marinissen

  Industry data shows that over 60% of complex chip design projects do require one or more respins, and that silicon debug has become the most time-consuming part of the development cycle of a new SoC. In this special session, industry experts discuss the in-system silicon debug problem and emerging solutions for it. The first speaker talks from the perspective of a design/debug engineer, with a host of experience of debugging actual microprocessor products. The second speaker discusses on-chip design-for-debug hardware required to create access to chip-internal signals. The third speaker describes the software that helps the debug process by visualization and translation to higher levels.

  2.1   The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Silicon Debug
  Speaker(s): Doug Josephson - Intel Corp., Fort Collins, CO
  Author(s): Doug Josephson - Intel Corp., Fort Collins, CO
  2.2  A Reconfigurable Design-for-Debug Infrastructure for SoCs
  Speaker(s): Miron Abramovici - DAFCA Inc., Framingham, MA
  Author(s): Miron Abramovici - DAFCA Inc., Framingham, MA
Paul Bradley - DAFCA Inc., Framingham, MA
Kumar Dwarakanath - DAFCA Inc., Framingham, MA
Peter Levin - DAFCA Inc., Framingham, MA
Gerard Memmi - DAFCA Inc., Framingham, MA
Dave Miller - DAFCA Inc., Framingham, MA
  2.3  Visibility Enhancement for Silicon Debug
  Speaker(s): Yu-Chin Hsu - Novas Software, Inc., San Jose, CA
  Author(s): Yu-Chin Hsu - Novas Software, Inc., San Jose, CA
Furshing Tsai - Novas Software, Inc., San Jose, CA
Wells Jong - Novas Software, Inc., San Jose, CA
Ying-Tsai Chang - Novas Software, Inc., San Jose, CA