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Long-term on-chip verification of systems with logical events scattered in time
Traditional on-chip and off-chip logic analyzers present important shortcomings when used for the longterm
verification of industrial embedded systems, forcing the designer to implement ad hoc verification
solutions. This paper introduces a suitable solution for long-term verification of FPGA-based designs consisting
of a verification core that uses the PicoBlaze microcontroller, dedicated logic and a serial port communication
in order to monitor the internal signals of the system in a continuous way. The core design
focuses on low resource requirements and has been successfully applied to the verification of a real
industrial synchronization platform showing remarkable advantages over commercial on-chip solutions
like Xilinx鈥檚 ChipScope Pro. Moreover, in order to improve the reusability of this core a software tool has
been developed to automatically include the verification core in any specific system.Ministerio de Educaci贸n y Ciencia TEC2007-61802/MI