Vendor: SmartDV Technologies Category: GPIO

QI Verification IP

QI Verification IP provides a smart way to verify the Qi component of a SOC or a ASIC.

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Overview

QI Verification IP provides a smart way to verify the Qi component of a SOC or a ASIC. The SmartDV's Qi Verification IP is fully compliant with standard Qi Specification. The Qi VIP can be readily customized and optimized for a wide range of specific system applications.

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

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

Key features

  • Compliant with Qi Specification
  • Supports negotiation phase, a calibration phase, and a renegotiation phase
  • Supports Power Transmitter (PTx)
  • Supports Power Receiver (PRx)
  • Supports differential bi-phase encoding scheme
  • Supports both Baseline power profile and Extended power profile
  • Supports Foreign object detection(FOD) extensions
  • Supports Frequency shift keying modulation and De-modulation
  • Supports Backscatter modulation and De-modulation
  • Supports Power transfer phases with Power Transmitter (PTx),Power Receiver (PRx) perspective
  • Supports Stand-by mode of operation
  • Supports Power Transfer Contract
  • Supports Power transmitter and power receiver controls the power transfer in power transfer phase
  • Supports Power transfer phases for Baseline power profile and Extended power profile
  • Supports violation of the Power Transfer Contract
  • Supports Transmission errors
  • Supports 11-bit asynchronous serial format to transmit a data byte from power receiver
  • Supports all the Power transmitter to power receiver communication packets
  • Supports all the Power receiver to power transmitter communication packets
  • Supports Acknowledge, Not-Acknowledge and Not-defined response
  • Supports Timers as per specification
  • Supports all types of error injection and detection
  • Supports error injection in all the layers of Qi
  • Supports callbacks for various events
  • Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes

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Benefits

  • Rich set of configuration parameters to control the functionality
  • Faster testbench development and more complete verification of Qi designs.
  • Simplifies results analysis.
  • Runs in every major simulation environment.

What’s Included?

  • Complete regression suite containing all the Qi testcases.
  • 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
QI VIP
Vendor
SmartDV Technologies
Type
Verification IP

Files

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