Monitoring physical parameters in an emulation environment

摘要

A method and system is disclosed for monitoring and viewing physical parameters while the emulator is emulating a design. Additionally, the parameters are in real time or substantially real time, such as after a periodic update. In one embodiment, a monitoring portion of the emulator periodically monitors the emulator boards and power supplies for physical information. The physical information is communicated to a workstation for communication to a user. For example, the workstation can display the physical information in a graphical user interface (GUI) that shows which boards are plugged in the system and which slots are empty. In yet another aspect, the user can select a particular board in the system and view communication information, such as data errors, status, link errors, global errors, etc.

主权项

1. A method of monitoring an emulation environment used to emulate an Integrated Circuit design, comprising:
emulating the Integrated Circuit design in an emulator, the emulator including multiple printed circuit boards housed in an emulator chassis, wherein emulating the Integrated Circuit includes mimicking the Integrated Circuit design using programmable logic; receiving temperature information associated with one or more of the printed circuit boards, wherein each printed circuit board has two or more temperature sensors, a temperature sensor being positioned at a hotter point and a temperature sensor being positioned at a colder point of each printed circuit board; receiving a selection of a first printed circuit board of the one or more printed circuit boards; displaying a user interface including the received temperature information for the first printed circuit board, wherein the user interface is a graphical user interface wherein the received temperature information comprises a current temperature at the hotter point and colder point of each printed circuit board, wherein the two or more temperature sensors of each printed circuit board are located at predetermined positions and wherein displaying the temperature information includes displaying temperature information at the predetermined positions, wherein the temperature information includes a maximum and minimum temperature at each predetermined position; and receiving a selection of a second printed circuit board of the one or more printed circuit boards and displaying the user interface including the received temperature information for the second printed circuit board, while no longer displaying the temperature information for the first printed circuit board.