FCoE Verification IP

Overview

Fibre Channel over Ethernet Verification IP provides an efficient and smart way to verify Fibre Channel over Ethernet MAC, PCS and serdes of a SOC or a ASIC.The SmartDV's Fibre Channel over Ethernet Verification IP is fully compliant with standard FCoE Specification (FC-BB-5, Rev 2.00) and provides the following features.

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

FCoE 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 Fibre Channel over Ethernet specification(FC-BB-5) Rev 2.00.
Compliant with SCSI Architecture Model 3/4/5 (SAM-3/4/5).
Supports N,F and E ports.
Support for multiple initiators and targets.
Supports generation of all types of FC frames.
Supports verification of all layers of Fibre channel.
Supports FCoE controller.
Supports 1G and 10G as per 802.3 Ethernet.
- GMII interface
- XGMII interface
Support Ethernet frames.
Supports Fabric Login/Logout,Port Login/Logout and Process Login/Logout.
Multiple outstanding exchanges support.
Support for all SCSI commands.
Support for multiple Logical Unit Number(LUN) addressing.
Supports completely configurable target/device discovery.
Supports the full Fibre Channel fabric functionality
- ENodes and FCFs
- VN_Port to VF_Port Virtual Links
- VE_Port to VE_Port Virtual Links
Supports error injection and detection at each layer
- Invalid frame fields
- Invalid EOF and SOF
- Oversize and undersize frames
- Disparity errors
- Invalid code group errors
- Invalid K and D character
- CRC error
Retry control.
FCoE virtualizes the FC constructs over Ethernet
- ENode: a FC Node supporting FCoE on at least one Ethernet interface
- FCF: a Switch supporting FCoE on at least one Ethernet interface
- VN_Port to VF_Port: a Virtual Link between an ENode and an FCF
- VE_Port to VE_Port: a Virtual Link between two FCFs
Supports Pause frame generation and detection.
Glitch insertion and detection.
Comes with Tx BFM, Rx BFM, and Monitor.
Built in coverage analysis.
Status counters for various events in bus.
Proficiency to generate random frames and respond to frames in directed or randomized fashion.
Rich set of configuration parameters to control Fibre Channel Over Ethernet functionality.
Monitor supports detection of all protocol violations
Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
Callbacks in initiator, target and monitor for various events.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet Verification IP comes with complete test suite to test every feature of Fibre Channel over Ethernet specification.
Functional coverage for complete Fibre Channel Over Ethernet features.

Benefits

Faster testbench development and more complete verification of FCoE designs.
Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of initiator, target and monitor
Simplifies results analysis.
Runs in every major simulation environment.

Block Diagram

Deliverables

Complete regression suite containing all the FCoE testcases.
Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Tx,Rx 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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