Vendor: SmartDV Technologies Category: Protocol Bridge

AMBA AXI5-Lite Synthesizable Transactor

AMBA AXI5-Lite Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the ARM AMBA AXI5-Lite component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emu…

Overview

AMBA AXI5-Lite Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the ARM AMBA AXI5-Lite component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform. The SmartDV's AMBAAXI5-Lite Synthesizable Transactor is fully compliant with standard AMBA AXI5-Lite Specification and provides the following features

Key features

  • Compliant with the latest ARM AXI5-Lite Protocol Specification.
  • Supports AXI5-Lite Master and Slave.
  • Supports all AXI5-Lite 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.
  • 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.
  • Quality of Service signaling.
  • Multiple region interfaces.
  • User signaling support.
  • Supports unmapped region address accesses
  • AWCACHE and ARCACHE Attributes.
  • Low-power Interface support
  • Write strobe support.
  • AXI5-Lite specific features
    • All transactions burst length 1.
    • Reordering of responses for requests with different IDs.
    • All accesses Device Non-bufferable.
    • Atomic access support with normal access.
  • Programmable Timeout insertion.
  • Rich set of configuration parameters to control AXI5-Lite 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.

Block Diagram

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

What’s Included?

  • Synthesizable transactors
  • Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA AXI5-Lite 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

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
AMBA AXI5-Lite Transactor
Vendor
SmartDV Technologies
Type
Silicon IP

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