Vendor: SmartDV Technologies Category: Protocol Bridge

AMBA AXI4 Verification IP

AMBA AXI4 Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA AXI4 component of a SOC or a ASIC.

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Overview

AMBA AXI4 Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA AXI4 component of a SOC or a ASIC. The SmartDV's AMBA AXI4 Verification IP is fully compliant with standard AMBA AXI4 Specification. Our AMBA AXI4 VIP is proved across multiple customers.

AMBA AXI4 Verification IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env

AMBA AXI4 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 AXI4 Protocol Specification.
  • Supports AXI4 Master, Slave, Monitor and Checker.
  • Supports all ARM AMBA AXI4 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 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
  • Programmable Timeout insertion.
  • Supports FIFO memory.
  • Rich set of configuration parameters to control AXI4 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.
  • AXI4 Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of ARM AMBA AXI4 specification.

Block Diagram

AMBA AXI4 VIP block diagram

Benefits

  • Faster testbench development and more complete verification of AMBA AXI4 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 AXI4 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 AXI4 VIP
Vendor
SmartDV Technologies
Type
Verification IP

Files

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Provider

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