N5406A

Agilent Technologies InfiniiVision MSO N5406A FPGA Dynamic Probe for Xilinx Data Sheet Figure 1. FPGA dynamic probe for Xilinx used in conjunction with an Agilent InfiniiVision 6000 or 7000 Series MSO provides an effective solution for simple through complex debugging of systems incorporating Xilinx FPGAs. The challenge You rely on the insight a MSO (mixed-signal oscilloscope) provides to understand the behavior of your FPGA in the context of the surrounding system. Design engineers typically take advantage of the programmability of the FPGA to route internal nodes to a small number of physical pins for debugging. While this approach www.DataSheet4U.com is very useful, it has significant limitations. Since pins on the FPGA are typically an expensive resource, there are a relatively small number available for debug. This limits internal visibility (i.e. one pin is required for each internal signal to be probed). When you need to access different internal signals, you must change your design to route these signals to the available pins. This can be time consuming and can affect the timing of your FPGA design. Finally, the process required to map the signal names from your FPGA design to the MSO digital channel labels is manual and tedious. When new signals are routed out, you need to manually update these signal names on the MSO, which takes additional time and is a potential source of confusing errors. Debug your FPGAs faster and more effectively with a MSO A bette...