Circuit Design Visibility in Integrated Circuit Devices
AssigneeAltera Corporation
InventorsYi Peng, Brandon Lewis Gordon
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Abstract
A system includes an integrated circuit device configured to implement a circuit design. The integrated circuit device includes a communication interface configured to receive the circuit design in a configuration bitstream and instrumentation logic in the configuration bitstream and signal collector block configured to collect signal data based on the instrumentation logic during implementation of the circuit design.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- an integrated circuit device configurable to implement a circuit design, wherein the circuit design comprises a set of registers;
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- processing circuitry configured to perform operations comprising:
- receiving signal data from the integrated circuit device, wherein the signal data corresponds to a selected portion of the set of registers based on implementation of the circuit design on the integrated circuit device;
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- generating a visualization associated with the selected portion of the set of registers based on the signal data.
A non-transitory, computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, are configurable to cause a processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving signal data at a host device, from an integrated circuit device, wherein the signal data corresponds to implementation of a circuit design on the integrated circuit device, and wherein the signal data is associated with a portion of the circuit design;
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- generating, at the host device, a visualization associated with the portion of the circuit design based on the signal data.
A system comprising:
- an integrated circuit device, comprising:
- a communication interface configurable to receive a first portion of a bitstream and a circuit design and a second portion of the bitstream comprising instrumentation logic, wherein the circuit design comprises a set of registers;
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- a signal collector block configurable to collect instrumented data associated with a selected portion of the set of registers during implementation of the circuit design;
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- processing circuitry configured to receive the instrumented data as signal data and generate a visualization associated with the selected portion of the set of registers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.