FS2 Introduces SB Navigator Trace Tools For Sonics SiliconBackplane SMART Interconnect; Bus fabric-level debug for Complex SoC development
PORTLAND, Ore.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 7, 2005—
First Silicon Solutions (FS2(R)) announces today the
availability of the FS2 SB Navigator(TM), a comprehensive trace and
debug solution supporting Sonics(R) SiliconBackplane(TM) SMART
Interconnects(TM). SB Navigator is a component of the Bus Navigator
suite of FS2 products for system-level debug of complex embedded
systems.
SB Navigator provides SoC developers with the critical bus-level
visibility needed to simplify and facilitate analysis of core-level
intercommunications when developing complex SoCs. The versatility of
SB Navigator makes it an effective solution for silicon testing and
integration, software handshaking and protocol optimizations, and BIOS
firmware, and applications development.
"When designing with state-of-the-art, high performance
intelligent internal interconnects, such as SiliconBackplane, there is
a need for new types of debug and analysis tools to visualize the
internal workings of these very sophisticated SoCs. FS2 utilized
Sonics' vast system knowledge to help provide a highly attractive
feature set for our Navigator tools," said Rick Leatherman, president
of First Silicon Solutions.
"SB Navigator provides much needed visibility into the dynamics of
SoC data flows that is critical for architectural exploration, and
also helps Sonics in its initiative to advance reference design flows
for its SMART Interconnects," added Drew Wingard, chief technology
officer for Sonics.
SB Navigator consists of an on-chip instrumentation (OCI(R)) block
that connects through the SiliconBackplane snoop port to provide
in-silicon based triggering and trace, along with support for JTAG
probe control and display system analysis software
intercommunications. SB Navigator can be used standalone, or as part
of FS2's Multi-core Embedded Debug (MED(R)) on-chip instrumentation
reference design for embedded silicon analysis, which includes
multi-core system HyperDebug(TM) blocks, processor specific in-system
analyzer blocks, and other bus and logic specific instrumentation
options.
The silicon overhead of SB Navigator in a design is as low as 30K
gates, plus user defined on-chip RAM for trace. SB Navigator supports
bus alignment trace mode, which allows multi-cycle bus operations to
be triggered and viewed as a simplified single cycle transaction. SB
Navigator can also optionally filter trace to exclude idle or other
unwanted bus cycles.
SB Navigator is supported by the FS2 System Navigator family of
probes to connect to the target system using a 14-pin debug connector.
The FS2 System Navigator runs over Win2000/XP PC over a USB 2.0 port
or optional 10/100 Ethernet connection. The System Navigator OE
(original edition) uses a USB 1.1 or IEEE-1284 EPP/ECP high-speed
parallel port.
FS2 SB Navigator key features:
-- Real-time trace for over 175 signals (for 64 bit data bus)
through the snoop bus port
-- Supports raw trace or bus alignment in line processing of
SiliconBackplane signals
-- Comprehensive "logic analyzer look and feel" GUI and Command
line control interface
-- Multi-level combinatorial and sequential triggering for
advanced trace and system control
-- External triggering, dual counter, and timestamp options for
advanced debug and analysis
-- On Chip Instrumentation provided as fully synthesizable,
vender neutral RTL
-- Standalone operation or customized integration with processor
debug tools
-- Supported via JTAG interfaces under both Windows(R) and Linux
Availability
FS2 SB Navigator is available now. Contact FS2 or visit
http://www.fs2.com for information.
About First Silicon Solutions (FS2)
FS2 specializes in custom silicon IP, design services and OCI(R)
(On-chip Instrumentation) development tools for programming, testing
and debug of embedded systems in FPGA, SoC, SOPC, ASSP and ASIC
devices. FS2 OCI-based products include CLAM(R) (Configurable Logic
Analyzer Modules) based Logic Navigator(TM) and Bus Navigator(TM)
tools for IP debug, core specific System Navigator tools for processor
debug and trace, and MED(R) (Multi-core Embedded Debug) tools for SoC
debug. FS2 products enable silicon vendors and their customers to
develop and more effectively market their products, reduce development
cycles, allowing them to focus on delivering all the potential of the
system on silicon.
FS2, SB Navigator, MED, HyperDebug, and OCI are trademarks of
First Silicon Solutions, Inc. Sonics is a registered trademark and
SMART Interconnects, and SiliconBackplane are trademarks of Sonics,
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
First Silicon Solutions
Chuck Swartley, 503-489-0311 x103
Email Contact
or
Rains Marketing
Gary Rains, 541-386-5351 (Media)
