The PMBus Verification IP provides an effective & efficient way to verify the components interfacing with PMBus interface of an IP or SoC. The PMBus VIP is fully compliant with Rev. 1.4 of PMBus specifications. This VIP is a lightweight VIP with easy plug-and-play interface so that there is no hit on the design cycle time.
PMBus Verification IP
Overview
Key Features
- Fully compliant with Rev. 1.4 of the PMBus Specification.
- Support for all SMBus protocols with and without PEC (Packet Error Checking).
- Support for SMBus ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) for dynamically assigning a unique address to each slave device.
- Support Group command protocol for multiple PMBus device communication.
- In addition to command code protocols also supports extended command code protocol.
- Supports ZONE_CONFIG & ZONE_ACTIVE commands.
- Zone read and Zone write to access some or all devices on bus including their pages.
- Support for Command control code and all PMBus commands.
- Support STATUS_BYTE And STATUS_WORD command for fault management and reporting
- Supports generation of transactions with UVM register model.
- Built in Bus Monitor provides extensive protocol checking.
- Supports various error injection and detection.
- Provides verification scalability using functional coverage.
- Provides logging facility for bus traffic in the ASCII format and in user configurable mode.
- Supports timing checks in the Monitor.
- Callbacks for user-defined transfers.
- Supports transaction logging with detailed description of each transfer
- Graphical analyser to show transactions for easy debugging
Block Diagram
Deliverables
- PMBus Master/Slave Agent
- PMBus Monitor and Scoreboard
- Test environment and test suit
- Basic and directed protocol tests
- Random Tests
- Error Scenario Tests
- Assertions & Cover Point Tests
- Integration Guide, User Manual and Release Notes