Re: Design analyse methods

Altera provides the SignalTap II tool to allow monitoring live signals
inside the FPGA. This solution uses the internal RAM. Details of how this
tool can be used are provided in
http://www.altera.com/literature/an/an280.pdf

Hope this helps.

- Subroto Datta
Altera Corp.


"ALuPin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> when tyring a complex FGPA design on real hardware
> what possibilities do exist to analyse the design ?
> Of course one possibility are debug pins but the problem
> is that their availableness is not always given.
>
> Simulation might be a good first step in order to prove
> first correct functionality but what if there are
> some components which cannot be reproduced my models so
> easily?
> Are their any tools (for Altera Cyclone FPGA) which allow
> to observe the diffent signals live (not simulation!) without having
> to route them to output pins (which are of limited number anyway,
> apart from that
> the timimg may be changed in an unmeant way) ?
>
> Thank you for your information and help.
>
> Best regards
>
> Andre