Hardware observability framework for minimally intrusive online monitoring of embedded systems

Jong Chul Lee, Andrew S. Gardner, Roman Lysecky

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7 Scopus citations

Abstract

As the complexity of digital systems rapidly increases, designers are presented with significant challenges in monitoring, analyzing, and debugging the complex interactions of various software and hardware components. Existing hardware tests and debugging methods are often intrusive, either requiring significant hardware resources or requiring the execution of the system to be halted thus leading to system perturbations that can change the execution behavior to an extent that the erroneous behavior can no longer be observed - or lead to system failure due to missed execution deadlines. In this paper, we present an initial framework for minimally intrusive hardware observability that provides designers with the ability to monitor complex application-specific hardware execution behavior at runtime with zero - or minimal - impact on system execution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 18th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECBS 2011
Pages52-60
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event18th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECBS 2011 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: Apr 27 2011Apr 29 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - 18th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECBS 2011

Other

Other18th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECBS 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period4/27/114/29/11

Keywords

  • Observability
  • Online system monitoring
  • Testing
  • Validation
  • Verification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems

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