BEE: A Reconfigurable Emulation Engine for Digital Signal Processing Hardware

Hayden Kwok-Hay So, M.S. 2000 (advisor: Robert Brodersen)..

The motivation for developing BEE 1 is to provide a hardware emulation platform that can emulate complex communication algorithm in real time. At the same time, this emulation engine should accept a very similar, if not the same, high-level input as the final ASIC design. The goal is to have a seamless integration of the ASIC design flow and BEE design flow so that once the algorithm is tested and verifed in BEE, little or no effort is needed to build the final ASIC hardware.