Accelerate Debug of FPGA Systems with the Keysight MSO
应用文章
A large percentage of today’s embedded designs contain FPGAs as well as a wide variety of technologies that interface with the FPGA, including devices with analog, parallel, and serial circuits. Using FPGA’s, enable faster and more accurate in-system debug and validation than exhaustive simulation methods and allow designers to uncover problems that are difficult to simulate. In order to effectively debug complex systems, debug tools tailored for FPGAs are in high demand. Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes (MSOs) extend the measurement capability of an oscilloscope by adding logic timing channels to the debug environment thus enabling rapid debug of FPGA-based systems. Keysight Technologies, Inc. invented MSO technology over a decade ago, as a validation tool to give engineers the ability to measure analog and digital signals simultaneously within the same oscilloscope. This document will discuss the advantages of using a Keysight Technologies, Inc. MSO with the FPGA dynamic probe application as a way to dramatically reduce validation time versus the traditional rout-out approach.