Method and system for converting USB

• US 7,770,066 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2007
• Issued: 08/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Mun, Kui-Yon
• Primary Examiner(s): Chu; Gabriel L
• Application Number:
  US11/781,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20080028114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,107 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 714/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4282 on a serial bus, e.g. I2C bus, SPI bus on daisy chain buses G06F13/4247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/0038 System on Chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/0042 Universal serial bus [USB]

Abstract

A method for testing a USB (universal serial bus) device includes receiving a USB packet trace output from a USB host, at a USB packet trace converting apparatus, generating at least one token corresponding to the USB packet trace received from the USB host, determining a syntax tree corresponding to the at least one token, and generating a code for a USB host model corresponding to the determined syntax tree.

Claims

1. A method for testing a USB (universal serial bus) device comprising:

receiving a USB packet trace output from a USB host, at a USB packet trace converting apparatus;

generating at least one token corresponding to the USB packet trace received from the USB host;

determining a syntax tree corresponding to the at least one token; and

generating a host code for a USB host model corresponding to the syntax tree.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the USB packet trace comprises;

receiving the USB packet trace output from the USB host through a USB packet logger; and

receiving the USB packet trace output from the USB packet logger at the USB packet trace converting apparatus.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the USB packet logger generates a utg (USB traffic generation) file from the USB packet trace and outputs the utg file to the USB packet trace converting apparatus.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising storing, in a predetermined storage device, an expression-token table, the expression-token table comprising a stored expression and a stored token corresponding to the expression, and a syntax tree forest generated based on the stored token.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the generating of the at least one token comprises:

searching the stored expression of the expression-token table stored in the storage device for an expression included in the received USB packet trace; and

generating the at least one token from the stored token in the expression-token table corresponding to the stored expression based on the expression included in the received USB packet trace.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining of the syntax tree comprises:

searching the syntax tree forest stored in the storage device for a syntax tree comprising the at least one token generated corresponding to the USB packet trace; and

determining whether the searched syntax tree is the syntax tree corresponding to the at least one token generated corresponding to the USB packet trace.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the host code comprises generating the host code corresponding to the syntax tree while conducting a search from a sub-tree of the syntax tree.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the host code for the USB host model is a USB eVC (e Verification Components) host code.

9. A computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for testing a USB (universal serial bus) device, the method steps comprising:

receiving a USB packet trace output from a USB host, at a USB packet trace converting apparatus;

generating at least one token corresponding to the USB packet trace received from the USB host;

determining a syntax tree corresponding to the at least one token; and

generating a host code for a USB host model corresponding to the syntax tree.

10. A system for testing a USB (universal serial bus) device, the system comprising:

a storage device storing an expression-token table, the expression-token table comprising an expression and a token corresponding to the expression, and a syntax tree forest generated based on the token of the expression-token table;

a token generation module receiving a USB packet trace output from a USB host and generating at least one generated token corresponding to the received USB packet trace based on the expression-token table;

a syntax tree determination module determining a syntax tree corresponding to the at least one generated token based on the syntax tree forest; and

a host code generation module generating a host code for a USB host model corresponding to the syntax tree.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the token generation module receives the USB packet trace output from the USB host, through a USB packet logger.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising a USB packet logger which is connected between the USB host and the USB device, receives the USB packet trace output from the USB host, and outputs the received USB packet trace to the token generation module.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the token generation module searches the expression-token table stored in the storage device for a received expression included in the received USB packet trace and generates the at least one generated token with the token stored in the expression-token table corresponding to the expression based on the received expression.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the syntax tree determination module searches the syntax tree forest stored in the storage device for a syntax tree comprising the at least one generated token and determines whether the searched syntax tree is the syntax tree corresponding to the at least one generated token.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the host code generation module generates the host code corresponding to the syntax tree while conducting a search from a sub-tree of the syntax tree.

16. The system of claim 10, further comprising a host model which receives the host model code output from the host code generation module and outputs a host signal corresponding to the received host model code.