Ikos Systems, Inc.

Virtual Machine Works, Inc.

Mark E Seneski

Charles W Selvidge

Kem Stewart

Kenneth Crouch

Marina Wong

William K Stewart

Muralidhar R Kudlugi

Charley Selvidge

Ken Crouch

Joshua D Marantz

Charlie Selvidge

A portion of a logic emulation system is configured to sample logic values from the portion of the emulation system that is used to emulate the user digital logic design. These sampled values are then multiplexed by the emulation system to a logic analysis device. Typically, this is a commercially-available logic analyzer. To achieve this functionality, the emulation system is provided with a clock signal that has a higher frequency than the emulation clock signal received from the target or user system. This high speed clock signal is provided to logic analyzer as a strobe signal and controls the transfer of words of logic values from the emulation system to the logic analyzer. As a result, the number of signals that the logic analyzer can effectively sample for a cycle of the emulation clock is increased. Each probe of the logic analyzer can now receive multiple time-division multiplex logic values for each emulation clock cycle thus, increasing the width of logic analysis that can be performed on a particular emulation system with the conventional logic analyzers.

Logic analysis system for logic emulation systems

A system and a method provide full visibility to each net of a design under modeling by saving states of the design during modeling and reconstructing waveforms at each net by logic evaluation using the saved states. In one embodiment, primary data input signals and memory output signals ('sample signals') are saved by a logic analyzer, and used in an emulator to generate state vectors from a state snapshot previously recorded. Data compression techniques can be applied to minimize storage requirements, and parallel evaluation of segments of waveforms can be achieved, since saved states for the entire period of interest are available for waveform reconstruction at the time of the logic evaluation.

Reconstruction engine for a hardware circuit emulator

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Mark E Seneski