Founded in 1998, First Silicon Solutions (FS2) specializes in hardware verification and debug technologies including OCI® (On-Chip Instrumentation) custom silicon IP, development tools, and design services for programming, testing and debug of embedded systems in FPGA, SoC, SOPC, ASSP and ASIC designs. FS2 provides full system solutions with IP blocks, hardware, and software tools used at several stages in the development cycle from system design and verification to software development and debug. FS2 products enable silicon vendors and their customers to take their designs from "first silicon" to production faster, with a better understanding of the design performance and overall operation - for faster time to market and higher quality products.

FS2 Products Include:

System Analyzers and debug blocks for processor IP cores including MIPS Technologies, LSI Logic, Mentor Graphics, CAST, and other leading IP vendors.

Current adopters of FS2 OCI^® tools include: Actel, Altera, AMD, CAST, LSI Logic, MIPS Technologies, Mentor Graphics, Zilog, and more.

Technology

FS2's OCI debug block communicates with the host development system using the FS2 System Navigator® probe. This debugger is connected to the ASIC or FPGA target system containing the SoC core using a standard JTAG, or optional high speed tap. The tool set is completed with software on the PC that provides a graphical source-level debugger as well as a C/C++ compiler.