Patent ID: 8732650

Claim:
A system for emulating a circuit design, the system comprising: a custom prototype board comprising at least one field programmable gate array (“FPGA”) for emulating the circuit design, the at least one FPGA of the custom prototype board being capable of emulating at least a portion of the circuit design, the at least one FPGA also being capable of being configured to include a verification module that provides timing and control information to the at least a portion of the circuit design and probing signals associated with the at least a portion of the circuit design, the custom prototype board being described by at least one board description file; a host workstation capable of providing image data representative of the at least a portion of the circuit design being emulated and of the verification module, the image data being based at least in part on the at least one board description file and to be downloaded to the at least one FPGA on the custom prototype board; and an emulation interface coupled between the host workstation and the custom prototype board, the emulation interface being capable of providing timing and control information to at least the verification module, the emulation interface comprising a controller and a memory device, wherein the controller is capable of being configured to receive and process signal values associated with the probed signals to store the processed signal values in the memory device.