Continuous Integration for Hardware Emulation on SoC

Abstract

The Continuous Integration which helps to automatically perform the tasks of building and sanity testing which is most important in embedded system de- velopment. CI is the process of testing such tasks automatically Contineous Inte- gration(CI) and hardware emulation these are two things which helps in fast bring up of SoC. The SoC development process basically follows iterative design based approach. Every iteration has some modifications and it is different from previous one. When it comes in the verification stage it is tedious job to verify the com- plete design in the first attempt . This thesis proposed a effective way to test and build the every iteration of design. Continuous Integration (CI) helps to validate that design automatically. CI process starts from getting the new version of design from database like Jenkins or Perforce, patch it with older version which is available in database, compiling, elaborating, and finally till latest clean build come. Once, the build is ready, its time to test every module in the design. So that, need to launch the regression suite on different hardware Emulation Platforms like Protium and Palladium to verify the design functionality. This proposed platform notifies programmer through email about error in the ow and stops the process. The error message consists of error. The Contineous Integation simply automates the stuff and reduces manual processing, costs and efforts. This process improves fault coverage and will help to correct design bugs at very early stage.