What do you use FPGA prototyping for?

What do you use FPGA prototyping for?
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 toRead more

What can Exostiv Blade do for FPGA prototyping?

What can Exostiv Blade do for FPGA prototyping?
What can Exostiv Blade do for FPGA prototyping? Classifying FPGA prototyping debug and analysis methodologies. 'FPGA Prototyping' or 'using FPGA boards to prototype an ASIC or a SoC' can be done with a variety of systems. Using such a system requires additional tools to synthesize and partitionRead more

Exostiv boosts RTL simulation

Exostiv boosts RTL simulation
Exostiv boosts RTL simulation It is essential to reduce the wasted machine cycles used for simulation workloads. Simulation dominates ASIC/SoC/FPGA verification process 'The 2020 Wilson Research Group ASIC and FPGA Functional Verification Study' reports that an ASIC, SoC or FPGA designer can spend up to 40% ofRead more

ASIC designers and FPGA OEMs

ASIC designers and FPGA OEMs
ASIC designers and FPGA OEMs. Last week, we conducted a quick poll on LinkedIn - about what our followers and readers made of FPGA... See the results below: So, 24 of the respondents use FPGA as a target technology ((46% + 23%) x 35) - and 17Read more

Why observability matters

Why observability matters
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 takenRead more

Record FPGA data during 1 hour – really

Record FPGA data during 1 hour - really
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.Read more

You can capture tons of data. Now what?

You can capture tons of data. Now what?
You can capture tons of data. Now what? Offering huge new capabilities is not always seen positively. Sometimes, engineers come to us and ask: 'Now that I am able to collect Gigabytes of trace data from FPGA running at speed... how do I analyze that much data?'.Read more

Our waveform viewer is 10x faster

Our waveform viewer is 10x faster
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 theRead more

10 cool things about us…

10 cool things about us…
10 cool things about us... #1 Our waveform viewer commonly processes Gigabytes of waves without lagging That's because we have to display data recorded from #FPGA in operation during seconds, minutes or even hours, not just a window of waves from a simulation. So we needed toRead more

EXOSTIV lets you peer deeper into FPGA

EXOSTIV lets you peer deeper into FPGA
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 createsRead more

Record 8GB from a running FPGA – really

Record 8GB from a running FPGA – really
Record 8GB from a running FPGA - really. In this blog post, I demonstrate 2 different - and extreme? - capture scenarios made possible with EXOSTIV. In the 2 cases, I have used a VCU108 Virtex Ultrascale development kit from Xilinx. (see Xilinx'coverage of EXOSTIV in theRead more

Deep Trace & Bandwidth

Deep Trace & Bandwidth
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 builtRead more