AMBA CXS Synthesizable Transactor

Overview

Key Features

• Compliant with the latest ARM AMBA CXS specification.
• Supports CXS Transmitter and Receiver.
• Supports credit exchange mechanism.
• Supports Link activation and deactivation.
• Support for skipping link activation.
• Configurable credit mechanism including dynamic and pre-allocated credit control.
• Support for Interface properties and possible options as per protocol.
• Supports continuous delivery of data - uninterrupted transmission of packets.
• Fine grain control of below:
• Flit packets placement
• Packet control fields
• Ability to configure the width of all signals.
• Support for error injection during Link activation and deactivation.
• Ability to inject and detect errors including:
• Credit exchange mechanism
• Flit packets placement
• Parity
• Packet control fields
• Packet size
• Link activation and deactivation
• Programmable Protocol signal delays.
• Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
• Programmable Timeout insertion.
• Rich set of configuration parameters to control CXS functionality.
• On-the-fly protocol and data checking.
• Notifies the testbench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, timing and protocol violations.
• Transaction logging and Performance Reporting support.
• Callbacks in Transmitter and Receiver for various events.
• Status counters for various events on bus.

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

Block Diagram

Deliverables

• Synthesizable transactors
• Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA CXS 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.

Technical Specifications