Vendor: SmartDV Technologies Category: HBM

GHBM Synthesizable Transactor

GHBM Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the GHBM component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform.

Overview

GHBM Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the GHBM component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform. The SmartDV's GHBM Synthesizable Transactor is fully compliant with standard GHBM Specification and provides the following features.

Key features

  • Supports 100% of GHBM protocol standard GHBM specifications
  • Supports all the GHBM commands as per the specs
  • Supports all types of timing and protocol violation detection
  • Supports burst length of 4 and 8
  • Supports programmable read/write latency timings
  • Supports bank grouping
  • Supports 8 and 16 banks per channel
  • Supports up to 8 channels per stack
  • Checks for following:
    • Check-points include power on, initialization and power off rules
    • State based rules, active command rules
    • Read/write commands rules etc
    • All timing violations
  • Supports all mode registers programming
  • Supports DBIac write and read
  • Supports legacy mode and pseudo channel mode operation (64 DQ width for pseudo channel mode)
  • Supports self-refresh modes
  • Supports channel density of 1 GB to 32 GB
  • Supports 128 DQ width + optional ECC pin support/channel
  • Supports ECC
  • Supports write data mask and data strobe features
  • Supports power down features
  • Supports target row refresh mode
  • Supports IEEE standard 1500
  • Protocol checker fully compliant with GHBM specification
  • Models, detects and notifies the test bench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, timings and protocol violations

Block Diagram

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

What’s Included?

  • Synthesizable transactors
  • Complete regression suite containing all the GHBM 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

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
GHBM Transactor
Vendor
SmartDV Technologies
Type
Silicon IP
Controller / PHY
Controller

Files

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Provider

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