A machine-readable medium containing instructions that when executed on a data processing system causes the system to perform a method for debugging an electronic system having instrumentation circuitry included therein, wherein the electronic system is described with a hardware description language (HDL), the method comprising: activating at least one aspect of the instrumentation circuitry available for debugging the electronic system via the instrumentation circuitry, the aspect selected from the group consisting of design visibility, design patching and design control; determining configuration information based on the certain design visibility, design patching or design control aspects that are activated; configuring the instrumentation circuitry in accordance with the configuration information; receiving debug data from the configured instrumentation circuitry operating within the electronic system; translating the debug data into HDL-related debug information; and relating the HDL-related debug information to the HDL description of the electronic system. view more

The machine-readable medium as recited in claim 19, wherein the design control aspects include trigger conditions, and wherein activating operates to enable a user to set one or more trigger conditions from the trigger conditions available by the instrumentation circuitry. view more

The machine-readable medium as recited in claim 19, wherein the instrumentation circuitry comprises design instrumentation circuitry, wherein the method further comprises interoperating the design instrumentation circuitry with a logic analyzer, and wherein at least a portion of the debug data stems from the logic analyzer. view more

A machine-readable medium containing instructions that when executed on a data processing system causes the system to perform a method for debugging an integrated circuit product having instrumentation circuitry included therein, wherein the integrated circuit product was designed with a high-level HDL description of the integrated circuit product, the method comprising: activating certain aspects available for examining or modifying by the instrumentation circuitry; determining configuration information based on the certain aspects that are activated; configuring the instrumentation circuitry in accordance with the configuration information; receiving debug data from the configured instrumentation circuitry operating within the integrated circuit product; translating the debug data into HDL-related debug information; relating the HDL-related debug information to the high-level HDL description; retrieving circuit status information for the integrated circuit product via the instrumentation circuitry; and displaying state information concerning the integrated circuit product based on the retrieved circuit status information. view more

The machine-readable medium as recited in claim 30, wherein displaying comprises: relating the state information to the high-level HDL description; and displaying the high-level HDL description of the integrated circuit product with the state information related thereto, wherein the state information includes signal values for signals, and wherein relating operates to relate the signal values to HDL identifiers within the high-level HDL description that correspond to the signals. view more

A method, comprising: translating a synthesis source text file to an initial circuit including one or more parts connected together with nets; identifying each part of said initial circuit with the portion of said synthesis source text file that created said part of said initial circuit; optimize said initial circuit to produce a final circuit containing one or more parts connected together with nets; analyzing said final circuit to determine characteristics associated with said final circuit's parts and with said final circuit's nets; identifying said final circuit's part's that correspond directly with said initial circuit's initial parts; identifying said final circuit's nets that correspond directly with said initial circuit's nets; and displaying said characteristics associated with those said final circuit's nets and parts that correspond directly with said initial circuit's nets and parts near said portions of said synthesis source text file that created said corresponding initial circuit parts and nets. view more