AMBA AHB Synthesizable Transactor

Overview

AMBA AHB Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the AMBA AHB component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform. The SmartDV's AMBA AHB Synthesizable Transactor is fully compliant with standard AMBA 2 AHB, AMBA 3 AHB-Lite and AMBA 5 AHB Specifications and provides the following features

Key Features

  • Compliant with ARM AMBA 2 AHB, AMBA 3 AHB-Lite and AMBA 5 AHB specifications
  • Supports ARM11 extension
  • Supports AHB, AHB-Lite and AHB5 operation
  • Supports AHB Master, AHB Slave
  • Supports multiple masters and slaves
  • Supports ARM AMBA AHB data widths and address widths
  • Supports protocol transfer types, burst transfers and response types
  • Supports all transfer sizes
  • Slave supports fine grain control of response per address or per transaction
  • Master supports fine grain control of busy state insertion and master aborting
  • Supports early burst termination and locked transfers
  • Supports split and retry transfers
  • Supports continue or cancel of a transfer on error response
  • Supports programmable wait states or delay insertion
  • Ability to inject errors during data transfer
  • Supports programmable timeout insertion
  • Supports flexibility to send completely configured data
  • Supports FIFO memory
  • Supports on-the-fly protocol and data checking
  • AHB-Lite support
    • Transfer type changes during wait states
    • Address changes during wait states
    • Burst termination after a BUSY transfer
    • Early burst termination
  • AHB5 support
    • Extended memory types
    • Secure transfers
    • Endian
    • Stable between clock
    • Exclusive Transfers
    • Multi-Copy Atomicity
    • Locked transfers
    • Multiple slave select
    • Single-copy atomicity size
    • User signaling

    Benefits

    • Compatible with testbench writing using SmartDV's VIP
    • All UVM sequences/testcases written with VIP can be reused
    • Runs in every major emulators environment
    • Runs in custom FPGA platforms

    Block Diagram

    AMBA AHB Synthesizable Transactor
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    Deliverables

    • Synthesizable transactors
    • Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA AHB testcases
    • Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Synthesizable Transactor
    • Detailed documentation of all DPI, class, task and functions used in verification env
    • Documentation contains User's Guide and Release notes

    Technical Specifications

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