Paper Info
Title
A multi-resolution AHB bus tracer for real-time compression of forward/backward traces in a circular buffer
Abstract
The forward/backward trace refers to the trace captured after/before a target point is reached, respectively. Real time compression of the backward trace in a circular buffer is a challenging problem since the initial state of the trace currently under compression might be overwritten when wrapping around occurs. This paper presents a real time multi-resolution AHB on-chip bus tracer which is capable of capturing and compressing both forward and backward traces in a circular buffer. The backward trace is accomplished with a ping-pong organization of dual forward trace compression engines. While one module is compressing the trace, the other is clearing up its internal data structure. The roles of the two engines are exchanged periodically. The Bus Tracer, costs 60K gates and runs up to 500MHz in TSMC 0.13μm technology. The experiments show that our approach achieves 2.32 to 3.98 times in effective trace depth than traditional circular buffer approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1391469.1391687
DAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
real-time compression,effective trace depth,bus tracer,circular buffer,internal data structure,real time compression,initial state,traditional circular buffer approach,challenging problem,dual forward trace compression,real time,multi-resolution ahb bus tracer,compression,integrated circuit design,system on a chip,soc,multiresolution analysis,logic gates,system on chip,data compression,engines,data structure,graphics,computer science,data structures,protocols,real time systems,memory
Data structure,Permission,Logic gate,System on a chip,Computer science,Circular buffer,Multiresolution analysis,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Integrated circuit design,Data compression
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0738-100X
8
0.86
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi-Ting Lin180.86
Wen-Chi Shiue2101.36
Ing-Jer Huang320034.40