Patent ID: 6917998

Claim:
A configurable and scaleable multi-bus platform for developing, testing and/or debugging prototype systems to be implemented in an integrated circuit, the platform comprising: a backplane providing a plurality of busses; a plurality of system bus cards each physically coupleable to the backplane, each of the system bus cards comprising: a system bus which is electrically coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of busses provided by the backplane when the system bus card is physically coupled to the backplane; and a bus infrastructure device providing support logic for operating the system bus on the system bus card; and a plurality of daughter cards each physically coupleable to one of the plurality of system bus cards and including at least one master or slave device, wherein when a particular daughter card is physically coupled to one of the plurality of system bus cards then at least one master or slave device of the particular daughter card is in electrical communication with the system bus of the system bus card.