An online RTL-level scan-chain-based methodology for accelerating IP emulation debugging at run-time
Khaled Salah · 2013
In this paper, an online RTL-level scan chain methodology is proposed to reduce debugging time, effort and accelerate IP emulation. Run-time changes of the values of the signals of the IP during execution-time can be done by the proposed scan-chain methodology. A utility tool was developed to help ease this process. Our experiment shows that, the area overhead is neglected compared to the gained performance benefits. But, design requires more compilation time.