AMBA AXI5 Synthesizable Transactor

Overview

AMBA AXI5 Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the ARM AMBA AXI5 component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform. The SmartDV's AMBA AXI5 Synthesizable Transactor is fully compliant with standard AMBA AXI5 Specification and provides the following features

Key Features

  • Compliant with the latest ARM AMBA AXI5 Protocol Specification.
  • Supports AXI5 Master and Slave.
  • Supports all 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, data and response phases. Separate read and write channels.
  • Support for burst-based transactions with only start address issued.
  • Slave supports fine grain control of response per address or per transaction.
  • Programmable wait states or delay insertion on different channels.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • Callbacks in Master and Slave for various events.
  • Status counters for various events on bus.

Benefits

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

Block Diagram

AMBA AXI5 Synthesizable Transactor
 Block Diagram

Deliverables

  • Synthesizable transactors
  • Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA AXI5 Synthesizable testcases
  • Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Synthesizable Transactor
  • Detailed documentation of all class, task and functions used in verification env
  • Documentation contains User's Guide and Release notes

Technical Specifications

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