Patent ID: 9721048
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for interfacing to an emulation device, the method comprising: receiving, with the emulation device, an instruction created as part of a function required by an emulation of a circuit design, wherein the instruction includes a field identifying the instruction as one of a plurality of potential data access mode instructions; identifying, with the emulation device, a target buffer from address data in the instruction; writing, with the emulation device, any payload data received with the instruction into the target buffer; executing, with the emulation device, one of the plurality of potential data access mode instructions identified in the field; wherein: for an instruction identified as a direct memory access mode instruction: for an instruction identified as a mode instruction other than a direct memory access mode instruction: such that said emulating facilitates manufacture of an integrated circuit that includes said circuit design.