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US 2009/0158257 A1Published application
Systems and Methods for Graphics Hardware Design Debugging and Verification
AssigneeVIA Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJim Xu, Minjie Huang, Dong Zhou
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Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods for debugging and analyzing graphics hardware designs. Hardware designs are represented by a software model implemented in a programming language. Graphics operations can be executed in the software model as well as in reference software models to allow a user to analyze the accuracy of a graphics hardware design and/or a device driver implementation.
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A system for debugging and verifying a graphics hardware design, comprising:
- a script engine configured to interpret a script representing graphics functions into commands;
- a script engine interface configured to translate the commands to a format that can be processed by a device driver;
- a graphics processing unit model corresponding to a hardware design of a graphics processing unit, which configured to execute the commands from the device driver and generate debugging information;
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- a debugger configured to allow for debugging capabilities of the graphics processing model.
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A method of debugging and verifying a graphics hardware design, comprising the steps of:
- translating a script representing graphics functions into commands processed by a device driver;
- processing the commands within the device driver and a graphics processing unit model representing a graphics hardware design;
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- generating at least one frame corresponding to the commands within the script.
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