On-Chip Instrumentation

The book "On-Chip Instrumentation" offers a comprehensive analysis of the technologies for on-chip instrumentation and the various approaches used to integrate instrumentation into system-on-chip designs (ASIC, ASSP, FPGA, etc.). These approaches are known under the term Design for Debug (DfD). On-chip instruments are hardware-based components that are integrated into a design to enhance the visibility of internal or embedded parts of the design. This includes, for example, the specific sequence of instructions in a processor or bus transactions in an on-chip bus. The book discusses the methodology and infrastructure surrounding DfD and provides specific design examples as well as discussions on implementations and the trade-offs to consider when deciding on the design or selection of instrumentation or SoCs with instrumentation. In addition to the focus on hardware implementations, software and tools are also covered in detail.