AMBA AXI5 Interconnect Verification IP

Overview

AMBA AXI5 Interconnect Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA AXI5 component of a SOC or a ASIC. The SmartDV's AMBA AXI5 Interconnect Verification IP is fully compliant with standard AMBA AXI5 Specification.

AMBA AXI5 Interconnect Verification IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env

AMBA AXI5 Interconnect Verification IP comes with optional Smart Visual Protocol Debugger (Smart ViPDebug), which is GUI based debugger to speed up debugging.

Key Features

Compliant with the latest ARM AMBA AXI5 Protocol Specification.
Supports AXI5 Master, Slave, Interconnect, Monitor and Checker.
Supports all ARM AMBA AXI5 data and address widths.
Supports all protocol transfer types, burst types, burst lengths, burst sizes and response types.
Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
Separate address/control, data and response phases. Separate read and write channels.
Support for burst-based transactions with only start address issued.
Slave and Interconnect support fine grain control of response per address or per transaction.
Programmable wait states or delay insertion on different channels. Interconnect has the ability to replicate Master/Slave inserted delays.
Ability to inject errors during data transfer.
Write strobe support to enable sparse data transfer on the write data bus.
Narrow transfer support.
Unaligned address access support.
Ability to issue multiple outstanding transactions.
Out of order transaction completion support.
Protected accesses with normal/privileged,secure/non-secure and data/instruction
Ability to configure the width of all signals.
Support for conversion of different protocols and different data width.
Support for bus inactivity detection and timeout.
Configurable WID signal enable support.
Read data interleaving support with programmable interleave depth and programmable interleave size per transaction to allow fixed and variable data interleaving in a transaction.
Atomic access support with normal access and exclusive access
Longer bursts up to 256 beats.
Quality of Service signaling.
Multiple region interfaces.
User signaling support.
Ability to break longer bursts into multiple shorter bursts
Supports unmapped region address accesses
AWCACHE and ARCACHE Attributes.
Low-power Interface support
AXI5 specific features

Atomic transactions
Data Check
Poison
QoS Accept
Trace signals
User Loopback
Wakeup signals
Untranslated transactions
Non-Secure Access Identifiers

Programmable Timeout insertion.
Supports FIFO memory.
Rich set of configuration parameters to control AXI5 functionality.
On-the-fly protocol and data checking.
Notifies the testbench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, timing and protocol violations.
Built in coverage analysis.
Callbacks in Master, Slave, Interconnect and Monitor for various events.
Status counters for various events on bus.
AXI5 Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of ARM AMBA AXI5 specification.

Benefits

Faster testbench development and more complete verification of AMBA AXI5 designs.
Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of Master, Slave and Interconnect.
Simplifies results analysis.
Runs in every major simulation environment.

Block Diagram

Deliverables

Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA AXI5 testcases.
Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of BFM and Monitor.
Detailed documentation of all class, task and function's used in verification env.
Documentation also contains User's Guide and Release notes.

Technical Specifications

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