Patent ID: 7130788

Claim:
A logic board designed for circuit emulation, comprising a plurality of input/output (I/O) pins; a plurality of emulation integrated circuits (IC), each having reconfigurable logic and interconnect resources reconfigurable to emulate circuit elements of a partition of an IC design; and a plurality of on-board data processing resources coupled to said emulation ICs to locally retrieve from said emulation ICs state data of emulated circuit elements, responsive to a monitor and report request received through said I/O pins, and to locally analyze the retrieved state data to detect occurrence of one or more events, as well as report on the occurrence of the one or more events upon their detection through said I/O pins; wherein the on-board data processing resources are further employed to locally generate a plurality of testing stimuli, and locally apply said locally generated testing stimuli to emulation circuit elements of a respective emulation IC corresponding to said partition of the IC design being emulated, responsive to a testing request received through said I/O pins, and wherein at least one of said emulation ICs comprises on-chip programmable data processing resources to cooperate with and assist said onboard data processing resources to perform said local generation and application of testing stimuli.