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Traditional design and test of complex multimedia systems involves a large number of test vectors and is a difficult and time-consuming task. The simulation times are prohibitively long on current desktop computers. Driving actual design scenarios and timing burst behavior which produce real-time effects is difficult to do with current simulation environments. This paper describes a rapid emulation framework for accessing multiple hardware IP blocks on an FPGA. This solution involves an abstraction of the FPGA platform by having a virtual socket layer that resides between the design and the test vehicles. A rapid prototyping platform is thus created, and its use with complex video and multimedia systems is described.
Drazen Dujic, Yanick Patrick Frei
Giovanni Pizzi, Ivano Eligio Castelli, Leonid Kahle, Sebastiaan Philippe Huber, Felix Tim Bölle, Jie Yuan