Subj : Re: Not debugging? To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : Ray Dillinger Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 04:32 pm Greg Menke wrote: > "Phlip" writes: >>Greg Menke wrote: >>>Ideally, the working software meets the >>>working hardware later on in the project. >>Sorry to interrupt; why is that "ideal"? Does the software match up even >>later sometimes? > I'm not proposing that it is. But theres not much alternative to > something like that when both the hardware and software are being > developed. Forgive me for asking, but if you are part of a team that is developing both specialized hardware *and* software to run on it, don't you have an accurate emulator in the first place in your HDL file for the new hardware? I mean, if you're designing the hardware, you've got the design in a Hardware Description Language (such as VeriLog) and your HDL development environment will support some excruciatingly exact simulations that you can test software against. At least, I've never seen a Verilog environment that didn't have a simulation mode you could test software against. Bear .