Vendor: SmartDV Technologies Category: Protocol Bridge

AMBA AXI5-Lite Verification IP

AMBA AXI5-Lite Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA AXI5-Lite component of a SOC or a ASIC.

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Overview

AMBA AXI5-Lite Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA AXI5-Lite component of a SOC or a ASIC. The SmartDV's AMBA AXI5-Lite Verification IP is fully compliant with standard AMBA AXI5-Lite Specification.

AMBA AXI5-Lite Verification IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env

AMBA AXI5-Lite 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 AXI5-Lite Protocol Specification.
  • Supports AXI5-Lite Master, Slave, Monitor and Checker.
  • 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/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.
  • 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.
  • Supports FIFO memory.
  • 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.
  • Built in coverage analysis.
  • Callbacks in Master, Slave and Monitor for various events.
  • Status counters for various events on bus.
  • AXI5-Lite Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of ARM AMBA AXI5-Lite specification.

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Benefits

  • Faster testbench development and more complete verification of AMBA AXI5-Lite 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 AXI5-Lite 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 AXI5-Lite VIP
Vendor
SmartDV Technologies
Type
Verification IP

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