Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a high-speed debug port trace circuit. The high-speed debug trace circuit includes a plurality of input receiver circuits each configured to receive a stream of trace data. The plurality of input receiver circuits receive streams of trace data from a plurality of compute circuits of different compute circuit types. The plurality of compute circuits are within the integrated circuit. The high-speed debug trace circuit includes a stream selector circuit configured to perform multiple stages of arbitration among the plurality of streams of trace data to generate output trace data. The stream selector circuit inserts compute circuit type identifiers within the output trace data. Each compute circuit type identifier specifies a compute circuit type that originated each portion of trace data of the output trace data. The high-speed debug trace circuit includes an output transmitter circuit configured to output the output trace data.

Abstract: Offloading trace data from an integrated circuit (IC) can include receiving, by a high-speed debug port (HSDP) trace circuit, streams of trace data from a plurality of compute circuits of different compute circuit types. The compute circuits and the HSDP trace circuit are disposed in a same IC. Compute circuit type identifiers are included within the trace data. The compute circuit type identifiers specify the compute circuit type from which respective ones of the streams of the trace data originate. Debug trace packets (DTPs) are generated from the trace data and transmitted over a high-speed communication link to a trace data storage device (TDSD) external to the IC. Within the TDSD, trace data from the DTPs are stored in a memory of the TDSD.

Abstract: Tracing status of a programmable device can include, in response to loading a device image for the programmable device, determining, using a processing unit on the programmable device, trace data for the device image, storing, by the processing unit, the trace data for the device image in a memory, and, in response to unloading the device image, recording the unloading of the device image in the trace data in the memory.

Abstract: Tracing status of a programmable device can include, in response to loading a device image for the programmable device, determining, using a processing unit on the programmable device, trace data for the device image, storing, by the processing unit, the trace data for the device image in a memory, and, in response to unloading the device image, recording the unloading of the device image in the trace data in the memory.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for automatic calibration and subsequent correlation of the position of a pulsed laser on a projected image in a system having a projector for projecting images onto a surface and a camera for sensing laser pulses on the surface. The automatic calibration method sets the camera exposure, allowing the system to operate in normal room-lighting conditions, and correlates camera pixel positions to projected image pixel positions by use of projected calibration images formed by sets of horizontal and vertical lines, with automatic calibration completing in less than 5 seconds. After calibration, the system determines two-dimensional camera pixel centroids of laser beam pulses on the projection surface to sub-pixel accuracy, and the calibration data is used to correlate the camera pixel centroids to the exact positions of the laser pulses on the projected image.