PALMiCE FPGA Emulator & Debugger

Product Description:

PALMiCE FPGA is a revolutionary debugging tool for Xilinx FPGAs (Spartan-II, Spartan 3, Virtex, Virtex-E, Virtex-II, and Virtex-II Pro).  PALMiCE connects to the FPGA either with a dedicated 38-pin "MICTOR" connector or "clip-on" connectors.

Designers can narrow down the problem points by checking the FPGA internal signal states and then performing detailed waveform analysis by using the analyzer function. Using the probing function designers can perform the operations by automatically wiring internal signals to pins without requiring re-synthesis through configuration.

 PALMiCE FPGA can perform FPGA configuration, an operation essential to FPGA debugging, at extremely high speed: a mere 1.8 seconds for a 1 million gate FPGA. Note that PALMiCE FPGA also supports the re-synthesis required for monitoring signals that were optimized away and no longer exist. The ISE linking function is used to modify the code in the HDL source window, and then the re-synthesis, layout/wiring, and configuration can be performed with a single mouse click. Additionally, internal signal state display and registering analyzer signals can be performed in the HDL source window, freeing the user from searching for the desired signal in large lists of signals.

Highlights: 

• Analyzer monitor signal registration and automatic wiring can be performed from the HDL source window (Probing function)
• Display of the values of arbitrary signals from the FPGA internal circuits in the HDL source window (Quick inspection function)
• Implements all functions without using FPGA internal resources (slice/block RAM).
• Displays block RAM content of FPGA internal circuit
• 16-channel state analyzer function
• Supports JTAG chain devices
• High-speed processing support for FPGA configuration (one million gates in a mere 1.8 seconds)
• Supports various devices
• A personal computer can easily be used as a logic analyzer.
  

Key Features:  
- Uses USB1.1 as host interface allowing simple connection  
- Displays block RAM content of the target FPGA 
- Supports JTAG chain devices
- Displays samplings of any signal in FPGA internal circuit 
- Displays FPGA source
- 16-channel state analyzer function 
- Quick inspection function
- Supports fast FPGA configuration (1.8 seconds for 1,000,000 gates)
- Uses no FPGA internal resources (slice/block RAM) 
- Supports various Xilinx FPGA devices
- The "Probing function" enables signals observed by the analyzer to be added/changed.
- The "Linkage function" enables user logic to be changed on CSIDE.

How To Connect

Main Specifications:

*1:Processor is not supported. 
*2:Usable even with the already developed target using the flying lead cable or the clip connection method.
*3:ISE WEBPACK is not supported.
*4:The FPGA is stopped (shut down) during readback.

HiTech Global Design & Distribution, LLC
2059 Camden Ave. Suite # 160
San Jose, CA 95124 - USA
Tel : + 1 408 781-8043   
Fax: + 1 408 268-4173 
info@hitechglobal.com