Method for troubleshooting the program logic of a system of distributed progammable gate arrays

    公开(公告)号:US11017141B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-25

    申请号:US16874224

    申请日:2020-05-14

    Abstract: A method for troubleshooting the program logic of a computer system. A first logic circuit and a first monitoring circuit, which is communicatively isolated from it, are programmed on a first programmable gate array of the computer system. A second logic circuit and a second monitoring circuit, which is communicatively isolated from it, are programmed on a second programmable gate array of the computer system. After an error has been detected in the program logic of the computer system, a first signal line, which applies a signal from the first logic circuit to a first signal input of the first monitoring circuit, is programmed in the first programmable gate array without changing the first logic circuit, and a second signal line, which applies a signal from the second logic circuit, is programmed in the second programmable gate array without changing the second logic circuit.

    Method for creating an FPGA netlist

    公开(公告)号:US10394989B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-27

    申请号:US15585335

    申请日:2017-05-03

    Abstract: A method for creating an FPGA netlist generated from an FPGA source code and at least one shadow register. The FPGA source code defines at least one function and at least one signal. The shadow register is assigned to the at least one signal, and is arranged and provided to store the value of the assigned signal at runtime. An option for reading out the stored signal value at runtime is provided. The function defined in the FPGA source code is not changed by the shadow register. The function described by the FPGA source code is executed by the FPGA, and a functional decoupling of the shadow register from the function described in the FPGA source code is provided. Via the decoupling, the shadow register maintains the signal value stored at the time of the decoupling while the function described in the FPGA source code is being executed.

    Method for determining the power consumption of a programmable logic device

    公开(公告)号:US10102325B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-16

    申请号:US15291113

    申请日:2016-10-12

    Abstract: A method for determining the power consumption of a programmable logic device, in which at least one configuration parameter is determined in accordance with a predefined configuration and at least one device parameter is determined in accordance with the programmable logic device. The predefined configuration is designed such that the programmable logic device exchanges data with a computing unit through at least one interface pin and receives data from at least one signal source and/or sends it to at least one signal receiver through at least one interface pin. At least one data characteristic of the data exchanged between the computing unit and the programmable logic device as well as at least one signal characteristic of the data received from the at least one signal source and/or sent to the at least one signal receiver are determined.

    METHOD FOR TEMPORALLY SYNCHRONIZING THE OUTPUT AND/OR TEMPORALLY SYNCHRONIZING THE PROCESSING OF SIGNALS

    公开(公告)号:US20170329732A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-16

    申请号:US15586798

    申请日:2017-05-04

    Abstract: Method for temporally synchronizing the output of signals and/or temporally synchronizing the processing of captured signals on a plurality of input and/or output channels of an electronic circuit, comprising the following steps: (a) combining a number of channels, in particular a proportion of all channels of the circuit, to form a logical group; (b) retrieving the channel latency of each channel belonging to the group from a data source; (c) determining the greatest channel latency from all retrieved channel latencies and at least temporarily storing the greatest channel latency as the group latency; (d) for each channel belonging to the group: determining the temporal difference between the group latency and the retrieved channel latency of the respective channel and storing the determined difference as a channel-associated latency offset in a memory, in particular a memory of the circuit; and (e) influencing the signal propagation via a respective channel on the basis of at least its respective stored latency offset.

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