Patent ID: 7299427
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for prototyping an integrated circuit, comprising: a motherboard having a plurality of connectors suitable for receiving daughter cards, the plurality of connectors being communicatively coupled to the plurality of daughter cards over a bus matching an ASIC AMBA bus environment, the plurality of connectors being selected from a group consisting of an AHB master connector, an AHB slave connector, and an APB connector, the motherboard including a multi-ported memory controller implemented in a FPGA, the multi-ported memory controller being communicatively coupled to common memory on the motherboard; and a plurality of daughter communicatively coupled to the motherboard utilizing the plurality of connectors, the plurality of daughter cards being communicatively coupled to the multi-ported memory controller; and a mezzanine card suitable for communicatively coupling to at least one daughter card of the plurality of daughter cards, wherein the mezzanine card provides physical I/O connectivity to the at least one daughter card, the mezzanine card being a telephony mezzanine card, the telephony mezzanine card including a TDM port to a voice codec and subscriber line interface circuits, the telephony mezzanine card further including a message processing unit (MPU) interface configured for controlling SLAC devices, wherein the motherboard and plurality of daughter cards are configured as an integrated circuit emulation platform for at least one of testing software and system integration of an integrated circuit emulated by the motherboard and the plurality of daughter cards, wherein the system is processor independent and is configured for supporting multi-instruction processing system (MIPS), advanced RISC machine (ARM) and ZSP logic architecture.