Apparatus and Methods Thereof for Configuration and Control of a System-On-Chip Emulation Platform

Abstract

An apparatus, protocol and methods for configuration of a platform for prototyping and emulation of a system-on-chip (SOC) device. The apparatus is an extensible platform for configurable prototyping of SOCs using an integrated circuit board comprised of a configurable board controller and a plurality of configurable modules which implement the SOC functionality. A plurality of such platform boards may be linked together to provide emulation and prototyping functionality for a multi-core system. The protocol specifies the SOC platform configuration data, commands for configuration and reading and writing data to each module and the communications between the host computer and the platform. The apparatus uses methods for configurable execution of the configuration commands by the board controller, and for the preparation of the configuration specification by the host computer. The host computer provides a user interface for management of the configuration specification preparation.

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