10 things you should know before SoC Validation 1. Validation and verification are different things 2. Emulators do not replace prototypes (and the other way round) 3. There are silicon bugs left to be found during validation 4. Design size matters 5. Each FPGA size matters 6.
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What do you use FPGA prototyping for? Typical usages of FPGA prototyping FPGA Prototyping is used for various purposes. Here are 2 of its main usages: FPGA Debug: at some point of the FPGA design cycle, tests have to be run with a 'real' FPGA board to
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Exostiv Blade - Managing multiple sites, targets & users In this video, we demonstrate that Exostiv Blade lets you manage multiple sites, target boards and users to reach your FPGA debug, verification and test goals. In a previous demonstration, we already showed that Exostiv Blade core capabilities
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Exostiv Blade is a Game Changer How it started Exostiv Blade all started from client requests in 2018-2019, especially from ASIC & SoC companies. They were seduced by the capture capabilities of Exostiv from FPGA running at speed - in some cases more powerful than the visibility
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Exostiv Blade - Core capabilities demonstration Here is a follow up of what was announced in our introductory article about the main features of Exostiv Blade. Down below, you can find the recording of a demonstration of Exostiv Blade in which we have wanted to show 2
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Why Observability matters. At Exostiv Labs, we think that 'Observability' - or 'Visibility' - that is 'the ability to observe (and understand) a system from its I/Os' - is relevant - and even key to FPGA debug. I'd like to show it with a real example taken
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Why we should scale FPGA tools - White Paper. In the 2020 edition of the Wilson Research Group Verification Survey [1], Siemens EDA, shows that a staggering 83% share of FPGA designs went to production with bugs in 2020. The results show that this share has remained
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Record FPGA data during 1 hour - really. As ASIC, SoC and FPGA engineers, we are used to watching the operation of our designs based on single limited snapshots. RTL simulations, for instance, provide bit-level details during execution times that span over a few (milli)seconds at best.
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Exostiv - Part 3 - Analyzer Demonstration This is the third and last part of a series of 3 posts that present our flagship product, Exostiv. This is the material that I use as an introduction to Exostiv; it is composed of 3 parts: - Part 1:
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Did you know that Exostiv can send triggers across clock domains? 'Visibility into the FPGA' is a multi-dimensional notion. Obviously, it means 'being able to watch' the inner workings of the chip - and hence, acquire the broadest (over)view on the FPGA. Today, we'll cover another aspect
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Our new waveform viewer is 10x faster! I am happy to announce that Exostiv Dashboard 1.10.0 has been released this week. In addition to the usual maintenance on supporting new devices, new versions of FPGA tools, and a discreet yet fresh icon set update, this is the
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Exostiv provides Gigabytes of visibility into the FPGA running at speed of operation from virtually any board. In this webinar, we'll introduce and demonstrate Exostiv and show how it can boost productivity when designing, debugging and verifying FPGA - and this, whether you use FPGA for ASIC
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On-Demand Webinar: 'How to capture Gigabytes of traces from FPGA. At speed.' In this post, you have the opportunity to catch up with our Webinar that ran live earlier this year. In this -now 'on-demand'- webinar we introduce and demonstrate EXOSTIV and show how it can boost
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EXOSTIV lets you peer deeper into FPGA Watch now... EXOSTIV Introduction EXOSTIV's structure (see below) allows deeper data capture from inside FPGA: unlike JTAG instrumentation, EXOSTIV provides an external storage that extends beyond the memory available in the FPGA. Coupled with the usage of transceivers, it creates
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Exostiv provides Gigabytes of visibility into the FPGA running at speed of operation from virtually any board. In this webinar, we'll introduce and demonstrate Exostiv and show how it can boost productivity when designing, debugging and verifying FPGA - and this, whether you use FPGA for ASIC
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Exostiv provides Gigabytes of visibility into the FPGA running at speed of operation from virtually any board. In this webinar, we'll introduce and demonstrate Exostiv and show how it can boost productivity when designing, debugging and verifying FPGA - and this, whether you use FPGA for ASIC
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Exostiv provides Gigabytes of visibility into the FPGA running at speed of operation from virtually any board. In this webinar, we'll introduce and demonstrate Exostiv and show how it can boost productivity when designing, debugging and verifying FPGA - and this, whether you use FPGA for ASIC
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Deep Trace & Bandwidth Exostiv provides the following maximum capabilities for capturing data from inside FPGA running at speed: Capabilities. 50 Gigabit per second bandwidth for collecting FPGA traces. 8 Gigabyte of memory for trace storage. 32,768 nodes probing simultaneously. 524,288 nodes reach. Actually, we have built
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Announcing… EXOSTIV for Intel FPGA Using Intel FPGA? We have exciting news for you: EXOSTIV will soon support Intel FPGA! Please check the pictures above and below – this is EXOSTIV working with the ‘Attila’ dev kit of our partner, Reflex-CES, equipped with one Arria 10 GX
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Debug with reduced footprint Footprint, 'real estate', resources, ... No matter the design complexity, allocating resources to debugging is something you'll worry about. If you are reading these lines, it is likely that you have some interest in running some of your system debugging from a real
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Debugging FPGAs at full speed In my previous post, I explained why increasing the available 'window of visibility' is a gigantic advantage when tracking system-level issues on modern complex FPGAs. EXOSTIV's structure does not require the FPGA internal memory to grow with the depth of the capture.
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‘My FPGA debug and verification flow should be improved…’ In my last post, I revealed some of the results of our recent survey on FPGA. These results depicted a ‘flow-conscious’ FPGA engineer, using a reduced mix of methodologies in the flow and very prone to going to
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Does FPGA use define verification and debug? You may be aware that we have run a first survey on FPGA design, debug and verification during the last month. (By the way, many thanks to our respondents – we’ll announce the Amazon Gift Card winner in September). In
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Defining targets (for FPGA debug) I recently attended a technical seminar organized in The Netherlands by one of the major FPGA vendors (hint: it is one of the 2 top vendors among the '4 + now single outsider' players in the very stable FPGA market). During the
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