Galileo, a leading company in the delivery of avionics designed over its own set of computing boards, is involved into design, development and integration of high-density, high-speed platform, having FPGAs as technological core.

Validation of real-time software applications over multiprocessor architectures represents a challenging task requiring comprehensive validation process of hardware platforms that will be as reliable as integrated is the diagnostic tools with the design itself.

A diagnostics need of such an application is the capability to correlate high-level, software generated events with bus transactions, state-machine stepping, down to signal integrity parameters. Everything, has to be performed within highly integrated platforms, without chance to plug powerful but cumbersome and, not the least, expensive system analysis instruments. Thanks to DiaLite Instrumentation suite, Computer Laboratories of Galileo Avionica have gained the capability to combine Temento VME bus analyser and DLI-based monitors - distributed through all the FPGAs in the system - with emulators, standard protocol analysers, oscilloscopes, logic system analysers, into a unique powerful, integrated, development environment. In such a way, diagnostics can embrace all the domains within the computer.Galileo uses DiaLite instrumentation from Temento Systems to quickly identify bugs in its FPGA designs and to speed up integration of its VME-based platform. Galileo used DLI to successfully delivery design of its computer platform for most of Agusta helicopters, Eurofighter Thyphoon, and so on.Further, DLI suite helps to get performance evaluation since it can be used to individuate system's bottlenecks, design's hazards and faults: in every case the problem was found and fixed in a very short time. With a standard approach, debugging would have taken longer and design complexity would have kept lower due to the lack of such a powerful diagnostic tool.

"The advanced architecture and flexibility of the DiaLite Instrumentation debugging tool helped us to shorten our development cycle and achieve the breakthrough performance," said, M. Mangogna Computer-Labs Manager at Galileo Avionica.Galileo is among a growing number of companies using Temento Systems's leading-edge FPGAs debugging tools to gain a competitive advantage. Galileo selected Temento Systems Platform FPGAs debugging tools over competitive tools based upon the unprecedented features."GALILEO's innovative application of Temento Systems DLI tool represents our ability to bring a significant impact on the methodologies to debug FPGAs and systems and in this way to decrease significantly the time to market." said Patrice Deroux-Dauphin, CEO at Temento Systems.

About DiaLite Instrumentation debugging tool

DLI provides a fast and easy instrumentation process flow enabling rapid design verification by keeping the same instrumentation whatever the version of your design. Real - Time, In-Chip Debugging. A major issue is to get access to internal logic and buses. With DLI you get benefits from the most advanced features available on the market by keeping a full coherency of the names and this, from DLI offers state of the art on chip instrumentation by providing physical chip measurements results. This gives to the designer a new way to monitor and to debug very complex designs. You will save days of simulation work by using specific debugging configurations on your chip, taking advantage of instruments like Traffic analyzer, Pseudo-random generator,Trigger, etc. combined with the use of other debugging tools like Background Debug Mode (BDM). Finally, specific features dedicated to instrument and to observe transactions on VME Bus are also available.

About GalileoGalileo Avionica is a Finmeccanica company formed in November 2001 to pool the best Italian skills in avionics, airborne systems and electro-optics. It has a leading role in avionic packages and radar programs of all major military airborne European platforms (Tornado, Eurofighter and EH101, NH90). This participation has ensured the development of cutting edge technology, along with comprehensive management expertise and consolidated skill in industrial collaboration.

Galileo Avionica covers the design, development, test and production of avionics mission systems, avionics and electro-optical equipment; precision approach radars both naval and ground based; fire control systems for main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles and anti-aircraft guns; artillery automation; as well as space equipment for platforms and payloads. Its subsidiary FIAR is a leader in airborne radars, METEOR with tactical training, UAVs training simulators and ALELCO with microwave tubes, solid-state subsystems and passive components