Vendor: SmartDV Technologies Category: Coherency

AMBA ACE5 Assertion IP

AMBA ACE5 Assertion IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA ACE5 component of a SOC or a ASIC.

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Overview

AMBA ACE5 Assertion IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA ACE5 component of a SOC or a ASIC. The SmartDV's AMBA ACE5 Assertion IP is fully compliant with standard AMBA ACE5 Specification and provides the following features.

AMBA ACE5 Assertion IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env

AMBA ACE5 Assertion IP comes with optional Smart Visual Protocol Debugger (Smart ViPDebug), which is GUI based debugger to speed up debugging.

Key features

  • Specification Compliance
    • Compliant with the latest ARM AMBA ACE5 Protocol Specification.
    • Supports all ACE5 data and address widths.
    • Supports all protocol transfer types, burst types, burst lengths and response types.
    • Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
    • Separate address, data and response phases. Separate read, write and snoop channels.
    • Support for burst-based transactions with only start address issued.
    • Write strobe support.
    • 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.
    • ACE specific features
    • Supports functionality to verify ACE and Cache Coherent Interconnect functionality for cache.
    • Supports all ACE transaction types including Snoop, Evict, WriteEvict and Distributed virtual memory (DVM) transactions.
    • Support for multiple outstanding ACE transactions.
    • Supports all write/read responses and snoop responses.
    • Support for cache model and snoop filtering
    • ACE5 specific features
    • DVM v8.1
    • CMO for Persistence
    • Data Check
    • Poison
    • QoS Accept
    • Trace signals
    • User Loopback
    • Wakeup signals
    • Coherency connection signals
    • Untranslated transactions
    • Non-Secure Access Identifiers
  • Assertion IP features
    • Assertion IP includes:
    • System Verilog assertions
    • System Verilog assumptions
    • System Verilog cover properties
    • Synthesizable Verilog Auxiliary code
    • Support Master mode, Slave mode, Monitor mode and Constraint mode.
    • Supports Simulation mode (stimulus from SmartDV ACE5 VIP) and Formal mode (stimulus from Formal tool).
    • Rich set of parameters to configure ACE5 Assertion IP functionality.

Block Diagram

AMBA ACE5 AIP block diagram

Benefits

  • Runs in every major formal and simulation environment.

What’s Included?

  • Detailed documentation of Assertion IP usage.
  • Documentation also contains User's Guide and Release notes.

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
AMBA ACE5 AIP
Vendor
SmartDV Technologies
Type
Silicon IP

Files

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Provider

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