Vendor: SmartDV Technologies Category: Protocol Bridge

AMBA 3 APB Verification IP

AMBA 3 APB Verification IP provides a smart way to verify the AMBA 3 APB component of a SOC or an ASIC.

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Overview

AMBA 3 APB Verification IP provides a smart way to verify the AMBA 3 APB component of a SOC or an ASIC. The SmartDV's AMBA 3 APB Verification IP is fully compliant with standard AMBA 3 APB Specification. Our AMBA 3 APB VIP is proved across multiple customers.

AMBA 3 APB Verification IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env

AMBA 3 APB Verification IP comes with optional Smart Visual Protocol Debugger (Smart ViPDebug), which is GUI based debugger to speed up debugging.

Key features

  • Compliant to ARM AMBA 3 APB protocol
  • Support AMBA 3 APB Master, Slave, Monitor and Checker.
  • Support for multiple slaves.
  • Supports all ARM AMBA 3 APB data and address widths.
  • Supports different transfer types including IDLE, WRITE and READ.
  • Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
  • Supports unaligned address accesses.
  • Slave memory map support.
  • Supports Unmapped address accesses.
  • Flexibility to send completely configured data.
  • Slave supports fine grain control of response per address or per transfer.
  • Random PSLVERR insertion.
  • Programmable Wait state insertion.
  • Programmable Timeout insertion.
  • Programmable number of idle cycles
  • Ability to inject errors during data transfer.
  • Supports FIFO memory.
  • Rich set of configuration parameters to control AMBA 3 APB 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 and Monitor for various events.
  • Status counters for various events on bus.
  • AMBA 3 APB Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of ARM AMBA 3 APB specification

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Benefits

  • Faster testbench development and more complete verification of AMBA 3 APB designs.
  • Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of Master and Slave.
  • Simplifies results analysis.
  • Runs in every major simulation environment.

What’s Included?

  • Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA 3 APB 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.

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
AMBA 3 APB VIP
Vendor
SmartDV Technologies
Type
Verification IP

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