MIPI I3C Synthesizable Transactor

Overview

MIPI I3C Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the MIPI I3C component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform. MIPI I3C Synthesizable Transactor provides an smart way to verify the MIPI I3C bi-directional two-wire bus. The SmartDV's MIPI I3C Synthesizable Transactor is fully compliant with Specification for I3C version 1.1 and provides the following features.

Key Features

  • Compliant with MIPI I3C version 1.1 specification
  • Supports full MIPI I3C Master and Slave functionality
  • Two wire serial interface up to 12.5 MHz using Push-Pull with the following Data rates supported
    • Standard speed
  • Supports all topologies
    • Single master – Single slave
    • Single master – Multi slave
    • Multi master – Single slave
    • Multi master – Multi slave
  • Dynamic Addressing while supporting Static Addressing for legacy I2C devices.
  • Supports I3C address arbitration.
  • Supports Single Data Rate (SDR) messaging.
    • Direct CCC
    • Broadcast CCC
  • Supports High Data Rate (HDR) messaging
    • HDR-Dual Data Rate Mode (HDR-DDR)
    • HDR-Ternary symbol for Pure bus (HDR-TSP)
    • HDR-Ternary symbol Legacy inclusive bus (HDR-TSL)
  • In-Band Interrupt support and Hot-Join support
  • Legacy I2C Device co-existence on the same Bus instance
  • Supports error detection and recovery
  • Supports injection of various errors by master
    • Broadcast address/ I3C address error
    • SDR write data parity error
    • Dynamic address parity error
    • Illegal CCC error
    • HDR command parity and preamble error
    • HDR write data parity and preamble error
    • HDR CRC and frame error
  • Supports injection of various errors by slave
    • Broadcast address/ I3C address nack error
    • Illegal CCC error
    • I2C write data nack error
    • SDR read data parity error
    • HDR read data preamble and parity error
    • HDR read CRC error

    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

    MIPI I3C Synthesizable Transactor
 Block Diagram

    Deliverables

    • Synthesizable transactors
    • Complete regression suite containing all the MIPI I3C testcases
    • Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Synthesiable VIP
    • 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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