Low Latency DRAM Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the Low Latency DRAM component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform. The SmartDV's Low Latency DRAM Synthesizable Transactor is fully compliant with standard Low Latency DRAM Specification and provides the following features.
Low Latency DRAM Synthesizable Transactor
Overview
Key Features
- Supports 100% of Low Latency DRAM protocol standard Low Latency DRAM specifications
- Supports 8 internal banks
- Supports all mode registers programming
- Supports programmable read latency and row cycle time
- Supports address multiplexing
- Supports all the Low Latency DRAM commands as per the specs
- Supports programmable burst lengths
- Supports data mask for write commands
- Checks for following:
- Check-points include power on, initialization and power off rules
- State based rules, active command rules
- Read/Write command rules etc
- All timing violations
- Supports power down features
- Supports self refresh features
- Supports DLL
- Supports ODT (on-die termination)
- Supports all types of timing and protocol violation detection
- Protocol checker fully compliant with Low Latency DRAM specification
- Models, detects and notifies the test bench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, timing and protocol violations
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

Deliverables
- Synthesizable transactors
- Complete regression suite containing all the Low Latency DRAM testcases
- Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Synthesizable Transactor
- Detailed documentation of all DPI, class, task and function's used in verification env
- Documentation contains User's Guide and Release notes
Technical Specifications
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