AMBA ACE-Lite Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA ACE-Lite component of a SOC or a ASIC. The SmartDV's AMBA ACE-Lite Verification IP is fully compliant with standard AMBA ACE-Lite Specification.
AMBA ACE-Lite VIP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env
AMBA ACE-Lite VIP comes with optional Smart Visual Protocol Debugger (Smart ViPDebug), which is GUI based debugger to speed up debugging.
- Features
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- Compliant with the latest ARM AMBA ACE-Lite Protocol Specification.
- Supports ACE-Lite Master, Slave, Interconnect, Monitor and Checker.
- Supports all ACE-Lite data and address widths.
- Supports all protocol transfer types, burst types, burst lengths, burst sizes and response types.
- Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
- Separate address/control, data and response phases. Separate read and write channels.
- Support for burst-based transactions with only start address issued.
- Slave, Interconnect and Master support fine grain control of response per address or per transaction.
- Programmable wait states or delay insertion on different channels. Interconnect has the ability to replicate Master/Slave inserted delays.
- Ability to inject errors during data transfer.
- Write strobe support to enable sparse data transfer on the write data bus.
- Narrow transfer support.
- Unaligned address access support.
- Ability to issue multiple outstanding transactions.
- Out of order transaction completion support.
- Protected accesses with normal/privileged,secure/non-secure and data/instruction
- Ability to configure the width of all signals.
- Support for conversion of different protocols and different data width.
- Support for bus inactivity detection and timeout.
- Configurable WID signal enable support.
- Read data interleaving support with programmable interleave depth and programmable interleave size per transaction to allow fixed and variable data interleaving in a transaction.
- Atomic access support with normal access and exclusive access
- Longer bursts up to 256 beats.
- Quality of Service signaling.
- Multiple region interfaces.
- User signaling support.
- Ability to break longer bursts into multiple shorter bursts
- Supports unmapped region address accesses
- AWCACHE and ARCACHE Attributes.
- Low-power Interface support
- ACE-Lite specific features
- Supports functionality to verify ACE-Lite.
- Supports all ACE-Lite transaction types.
- Support for multiple outstanding ACE-Lite transactions.
- Supports all write/read responses.
- Fine grain control of Initiating Master transaction including main memory access.
- Fine grain control of Interconnect generated main memory access transactions.
- Barrier transactions
- Shareable and Non-shareable transactions.
- Broadcast cache maintenance operations.
- Programmable Timeout insertion.
- Supports FIFO memory.
- Rich set of configuration parameters to control ACE-Lite functionality.
- On-the-fly protocol and data checking.
- Notifies the testbench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, timing and protocol violations.
- Built in coverage analysis.
- Callbacks in Master, Slave, Interconnect and Monitor for various events.
- Status counters for various events on bus.
- ACE-Lite Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of ARM AMBA ACE-Lite specification.
- Benefits
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- Faster testbench development and more complete verification of AMBA ACE-Lite designs.
- Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of Master, Slave and Interconnect.
- Simplifies results analysis.
- Runs in every major simulation environment.
- AMBA ACE-Lite Verification Env
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SmartDV's AMBA ACE-Lite Verification env contains following.
- Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA ACE-Lite 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.
