Vendor: SmartDV Technologies Category: Protocol Bridge

AMBA APB Synthesizable Transactor

AMBA APB Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the AMBA APB component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA pl…

Overview

AMBA APB Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the AMBA APB component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform. The SmartDV's AMBA APB Synthesizable Transactor is fully compliant with standard AMBA APB 3.0/4.0 Specification and provides the following features

Key features

  • Compliant to ARM AMBA APB 3.0/4.0 protocol
  • Supports AMBA APB Master, APB Slave
  • Supports multiple slaves
  • Supports all ARM AMBA APB 3.0/4.0 data and address widths
  • APB3/APB4 common support
    • Different transfer types including IDLE, WRITE and READ
    • Unaligned address accesses
    • Slave memory map support
    • Unmapped address accesses
    • Flexibility to send completely configured data
    • Slave supports fine grain control of response per address or per transfer
    • Programmable wait state insertion
    • Programmable timeout insertion
    • Programmable number of idle cycles
    • Ability to inject errors during data transfer
  • APB4 support
  • In addition to APB3 support, APB4 supports the following features:
    • Protected accesses
    • Write strobe signal to enable sparse data transfer on the write data bus
  • Supports FIFO memory
  • Supports on-the-fly protocol and data checking

Block Diagram

Benefits

  • Compatible with testbench writing using SmartDV's VIP
  • All UVM sequences/testcases written with VIP can be reused
  • Runs in every major emulators environment
  • Runs in custom FPGA platforms

What’s Included?

  • Synthesizable transactors
  • Complete regression suite containing all the APB testcases
  • Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Synthesizable Transactor
  • Detailed documentation of all DPI, class, task and functions used in verification env
  • Documentation contains User's Guide and Release notes

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
AMBA APB Transactor
Vendor
SmartDV Technologies
Type
Silicon IP

Files

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Provider

SmartDV Technologies
HQ: India
At SmartDV Technologies™, we believe there’s a better way to approach semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for integrated circuits. We’ve been focused exclusively on IP since 2007—so whether you’re sourcing standards-based design IP for your next SoC, ASIC, or FPGA, or seeking verification solutions (VIP) to put your chip design through its paces, you’ll find SmartDV’s IP straightforward to integrate. By combining proprietary SmartCompiler™ technology with the knowledge of hundreds of expert engineers, SmartDV can customize IP to meet your unique design objectives: quickly, economically, and reliably. Don’t allow other suppliers to force onesize-fits-all cores into your chip design. Get the IP you need, tailored to your specifications, with SmartDV: IP Your Way.

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