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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Debugging techniques performed post-silicon, but with reference to pre-silicon phase data and/or reference model data. For example, one debugging technique is as follows: (i) receiving a first memory location that is subject to a miscompare between an associated simulation value for the first memory location and an associated actual value for the first memory location; (ii) backtracking through instructions of a test case to determine the identity of a set of backtrack locations upon which the first memory location is dependent, with the set of backtrack locations being made up of at least one of: memory locations and register locations; and (iii) comparing respective simulation values and actual values for at least one of the backtrack locations to help determine a cause of the miscompare at the first memory location.