Post-silicon validation is used to detect and fix bugs in integrated circuits and systems after
manufacture. Due to sheer design complexity, it is nearly impossible to detect and fix all …

To locate and correct design errors that escape pre-silicon verification, silicon debug has
become a necessary step in the implementation flow of digital integrated circuits. Embedded …

Instruction Footprint Recording and Analysis (IFRA) overcomes challenges associated with
an expensive step in post-silicon validation of processors-pinpointing the bug location and …

The objective of IFRA, Instruction Footprint Recording and Analysis, is to overcome the
challenges associated with a very expensive step in post-silicon validation of processors …

The size of on-chip trace buffers used for at-speed silicon debug limits the observation
window in any debug session. Whenever the debug experiment can be repeated, we …

Post-silicon validation is used to identify design errors in silicon. Its main limitation is real-
time observability of the circuit's internal nodes. In this paper, we introduce a novel design …

Embedded logic analysis has emerged as a powerful technique for identifying functional
bugs during post-silicon validation, as it enables at-speed acquisition of data from the circuit …

Post-silicon validation is one of the most important and expensive tasks in modern
integrated circuit design methodology. The primary problem governing post-silicon …

Post-silicon debug is the problem of determining what's wrong when the fabricated chip of a
new design behaves incorrectly. This problem now consumes over half of the overall …

Post-silicon validation is an essential part of modern integrated circuit design to capture
bugs and design errors that escape pre-silicon validation phase. A major problem governing …