AMBA 4 APB Verification IP

Overview

AMBA 4 APB Verification IP provides a smart way to verify the AMBA 4 APB component of a SOC or an ASIC. The SmartDV's AMBA 4 APB Verification IP is fully compliant with standard AMBA 4 APB Specification. Our AMBA 4 APB VIP is proved across multiple customers.

AMBA 4 APB Verification IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env

AMBA 4 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 4 APB protocol
Support AMBA 4 APB Master, Slave, Monitor and Checker.
Support for multiple slaves.
Supports all ARM AMBA 4 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.
Support protected accesses.
Support for write strobe signal to enable sparse data transfer on the write data bus.
Supports FIFO memory.
Rich set of configuration parameters to control AMBA 4 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 4 APB Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of ARM AMBA 4 APB specification

Benefits

Faster testbench development and more complete verification of AMBA 4 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.

Block Diagram

Deliverables

Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA 4 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.

Technical Specifications

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