picoArray Technology: The Tool's Story

TL;DR

This paper introduces the picoArray architecture, focusing on its deterministic communication fabric and specialized debugging methods to maximize computational efficiency with minimal hardware debugging support.

Contribution

It presents the picoArray architecture and its debugging and verification methods tailored for high-performance, low-debug-support hardware devices.

Findings

Deterministic internal communication fabric enhances system predictability.

Debugging and verification methods are optimized for minimal hardware support.

The architecture maximizes computational ability while simplifying debugging processes.

Abstract

This paper briefly describes the picoArray? architecture, and in particular the deterministic internal communication fabric. The methods that have been developed for debugging and verifying systems using devices from the picoArray family are explained. In order to maximize the computational ability of these devices, hardware debugging support has been kept to a minimum and the methods and tools developed to take this into account.