Multi-FPGA Embedded System Debug

AspenLogic — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:40:10 +0000

The Customer was struggling with a mission critical, embedded design, hosted on a main FPGA board Microblaze soft processor design interfaced with eight daughter cards. A TCP/IP stack provided connectivity to the PC with data collected from eight infrared sensors on each of the daughter cards. The traditional SDK based debugging had run out of steam as months had passed with no viable leads on the cause of a random operational bug. Utilizing Xilinx® Chipscope™, I was able to locate a randomly pulsing signal used in an asyncronous FSM reset.