aiSee: Validation of Hardware Traces

Validation of Hardware Traces

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aiTraval was developed to compare hardware traces with the predictions of aiT for MPC755.

The validation process is implemented in a depth-first-search manner. First, all nodes matching to the first event of a given trace are searched. Starting at one of these nodes, the tool tries to match the whole given trace by stepping deeper and deeper into the graph.

As a result of the validation process, a GDL file is written. The resulting graph shows all paths found that match the given trace. The edges are labeled with the bus clock delay between the corresponding states. States that don’t contain any events are folded away.