A Novel Emulation Technique that Preserves Circuit Structure and Timing

Abstract

This paper presents an emulation technique that allows to preserve structure and optionally timing of an emulated circuit according to a target technology. The technique is compatible with fault injection techniques based on circuit instrumentation or partial runtime reconfiguration, and it allows to emulate timing parameters of the circuit through an introduction of a virtual time. An area and timing overhead due to preserving the circuit structure and parameters of basic delay elements are evaluated by experiments.