Vendor: SmartDV Technologies Category: LPC

LPC Verification IP

LPC (Low Pin Count Interface) Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the LPC bi-directional bus.

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Overview

LPC (Low Pin Count Interface) Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the LPC bi-directional bus. The SmartDV's LPC Verification IP is fully compliant with version 1.1 of the LPC Specification and provides the following features.

LPC Verification IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env

LPC Verification IP comes with optional Smart Visual Protocol Debugger (Smart ViPDebug), which is GUI based debugger to speed up debugging.

Key features

  • Compliant to LPC 1.1 specifications.
  • Supports bandwidth up to 33 MHz.
  • Supports the following operations.
    • Memory read and write
    • I/O read and write
    • DMA read and write
    • Bus Master memory read and write
    • Bus Master I/O read and write
    • Firmware memory read and write
  • Host is capable of generating all types of LPC transactions.
  • Device is capable of responding to all types of LPC transactions.
  • Supports LDRQ Request.
  • Supports Serial Interrupts.
  • Supports variable number of wait states
  • Supports Wakeup and Power state transactions.
  • Supports insertion of various types of errors.
  • Notifies the testbench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, and protocol violations.
  • LPC Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to verify each and every feature of LPC specification.
  • LPC monitor has built in coverage analysis.
  • LPC monitor checks for protocol errors and timing violations.

Block Diagram

LPC VIP block diagram

Benefits

  • Faster testbench development and more complete verification of LPC designs.
  • Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of Host and Device.
  • Simplifies results analysis.
  • Runs in every major simulation environment.

What’s Included?

  • Complete regression suite containing all the LPC testcases to certify LPC Host and Device.
  • Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of BFM and Monitor.
  • Detailed documentation of all class, task and function's used in verification env.
  • Documentation also contains User's Guide and Release notes.

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
LPC VIP
Vendor
SmartDV Technologies
Type
Verification IP

Files

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