The PCIe Gen 5 Verification IP provides an effective & efficient way to verify the components interfacing with PCIe Gen 5 interface of an IP or SoC The PCIe Gen 6 VIP is fully compliant with latest PCI Express Gen 5 specifications. This VIP is a light weight with an easy plug-and-play interface so that there is no hit on the design cycle time.
PCIe Gen 5 Verification IP
Overview
Key Features
- Support for 32.0 GT/s Data Rate per lane with backwards compatible.
- Optimizing the Link to skip equalization at lower Data Rates when supporting 32.0 GT/s(optional feature).
- Lower pin count in pipe interface when supporting 32.0 GT/s.
- Support for newly added phy serdes architecture in pipe specification 5.0 .
- Support for modified TS1 & TS2 order set.
- Compliant with PCI Express Specifications 4.0 v1.0 (16GT/s), 3.0 (8GT/s), 2.0 (5GT/s) and 1.1 (2.5GT/s).
- Verification IP configurable as PCI express Root Complex and Device Endpoint.
- Configurable LinkWidth: x1, x2, x4, x8, x12, x16, x32.
- Configurable original pipe width : 8,16,32,64 and for Serdes Architecture: 10, 20, 40, 80
- Supports Low Power management LTSSM states - L0s, L1, L2, L1 sub states,PCI- PM, ASPM.
- Advanced Error Reporting (AER) with optional Malformed TLP checks, ECRC and TLP Poisoning support.
- Compliance testing in TL, DLL & PL including power management test-suites.
- On the fly protocol checking using protocol check functions, static and dynamic assertion.
- Built in Coverage analysis.
- Provides a comprehensive user API (callbacks).
- Graphical analyser for all three Layers to show PCIe transactions for easy debugging.
- Complaint with Pipe specification 5.1
- Supports scale flow control and lane margining feature.
- Supports simplified replay timer and SR-IOV
- Supports 10-bit Tag as requester as well as completer.
- Support for ATS with latest ATS Specification revision 1.1.
- Supports LTR & FLR (Function Level Reset)
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Technical Specifications
Related IPs
- PCIe Gen 5 Verification IP
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