For massive FPGA based emulator, the interconnection architecture and the transmission method of signals between FPGA's are important elements which decide speed of emulation and extendability of emulator. Existing FPGA-based emulation system is faced...
For massive FPGA based emulator, the interconnection architecture and the transmission method of signals between FPGA's are important elements which decide speed of emulation and extendability of emulator. Existing FPGA-based emulation system is faced the problems of which the emulation speed getting slow drastically as the complexity of circuit increases. In this paper, we proposed a new innovative emulation architecture that has high resource usage rate and makes the fast emulation possible. The emulator with very unique hierarchical ring topology presented here has merits to overcome FPGA pin limitation by connecting each FPGA into a set of pipelined rings, and it also makes emulation speed at the tens of MHz at least even at system level where the verification complexity can easily exceed the verification capability of designers.