Hardware-based network management framework for monitoring and testing of system-on-chips

Abstract

This paper describes a way of monitoring and testing embedded cores within a System On a Chip (SoC) through classical network management protocols. All embedded cores can be tested and monitored through the hardware-based SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) proxy agent implemented within an SoC. The basic idea of this work is to extrapolate the advantages of network management functions (monitoring, control, test…) to the chip level. The proposed approach is described and its efficiency is illustrated through extensive experimentations.