AUTOMATED TOOL TO MEASURE BANDWIDTH AND LATENCTY OF SoC DURING PRE AND POST DEBUGGING.

Abstract

Due to the increasing design size and complexity of modern Integrated Circuits (IC) and the decreasing time-to-market, debugging is one of the major bottlenecks in the IC development cycle. This project gives a generalized approach to automate debugging which can be used in different scenarios from design debugging to post-silicon debugging. The approach is based on python based an automation tool. This GUI based SoC traces debugging are proposed as an enhancement reducing debugging time and increasing diagnosis accuracy. Here earlier debugging time is reduced by 6 times to the previous debugging method. Here python is used to do scripting for this tool, this tool is graphical user interface and for designing this GUI python is used. Here recent version of python is used i.e. Python 3.7.2 and here simulator tool TRACE32 is used. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the approach in post-silicon debugging.