Developing Transaction Level Visualization Features For Accelerating Pre-Silicon Debug

Abstract

SoC are large designs made by combining other large designs. A typical SoC has many communication pathways and a large amount of parallel activity. In order to debug these kinds of designs effectively new approaches must be taken. We discusses the require- ments for effective debug in the face of today's large SoCs, outlining real world example and making some recommendations for easier solutions. This includes transaction based debug, with "connected" transactions. While designing SoC's it also required to view details in depth of part. Zoom Network Diagram viewer is the application which will do this for us.