The Interlaken Verification IP is compliant with 1.2 specifications and verifies Interlaken interfaces of designs Interlaken Interface. It can work with SystemVerilog,Vera, SystemC, E and Verilog HDL environment. Interlaken VIP is developed by experts in networking, who have developed networking products in companies like Intel, Cortina-Systems, Emulex, Cisco. We know what it takes to verify a networking product.
Interlaken VIP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env
Interlaken VIP comes with optional Smart Visual Protocol Debugger (Smart ViPDebug), which is GUI based debugger to speed up debugging.
- Features
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- Implemented natively in OpenVera, Verilog, SystemC, Specman E and SystemVerilog.
- Follows Interlaken specification as defined in Interlaken protocol definition v1.2.
- Supported RVM, AVM, VMM, OVM, UVM and non-standard verify env.
- Compliant to Interlaken protocol specification v1.2.
- Compliant to Interlaken look aside protocol 1.1.
- Compliant to Interlaken retransmission extension specification 1.1.
- Supports multi-channel implementation as per the specification.
- Supports configurable number of serial lanes as per the specification.
- Supports configurable burst max and burst short sizes.
- Supports insertion of extra idle to guarantee the avoidance of burst short.
- Supports scheduling calendar logic in the transmitter to choose the order in which the channels are serviced.
- Supports optional scheduling enhancement to avoid unused bandwidth by using decision algorithm.
- Each burst of transmitting data is encapsulated with burst control words before and after the data.
- Supports configurable metaframe length.
- Support configurable number of lanes from 1 to 64 lanes.
- Supports per channel inband and out of band flow control or both.
- Per-lane CRC-32 insertion into diagnostic words.
- Per lane skew insertion to test lane alignment.
- Configurable control to enable or disable the scrambler.
- 64B/67B encoding with inversion bits controllable.
- Variable test pattern generation as per specification.
- Supports test pattern generation and checking
- Supports PRBS31.
- Supports PRBS23.
- Supports PRBS7.
- Supports User defined pattern
- Supports very flexible way to test sync and alignment for state machines at startup.
- Following error injection is supported
- Receive SerDes loses lock.
- Receive logic loses word boundary sync.
- Bad scrambler state.
- Lane alignment failure.
- Burst CRC24 Errors.
- Flow Control Errors.
- Unknown Control Word Types.
- Bad 64B/67B Code words.
- Diagnostic CRC32 Errors.
- All types of CRC error injection.
- Invalid coding for all control words.
- Error injection in metaframes.
- Short burst error injection.
- Invalid burst boundary.
- Test pattern error injection.
- Comes with Interlaken Tx BFM, Interlaken Rx BFM, and Interlaken Monitor.
- Supports Interlaken interop recommendations 1.3 and 1.4.
- Rich set of configuration parameters to control Interlaken functionality.
- Supports 67 bit bus per lane or 1 bit serial lane to ease the debugging.
- Supports 80,64,40,32, 20,16,10 and 8 bit per lane serdes interface
- On-the-fly protocol and data checking.
- Notifies the testbench of significant events such as transactions, warnings,timing and protocol violations.
- Complete functional coverage for both normal and error cases.
- Callbacks in Transmit, receiver and monitor for various events.
- Status counters for various events on bus.
- Interlaken Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of Interlaken protocol specification.
- Benefits
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- Faster testbench development and more complete verification of Interlaken designs
- Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of Interlaken TX and RX
- Simplifies results analysis
- Runs in every major simulation environment
- Interlaken Verification Env
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SmartDV's Interlaken Verification env contains following.
- Complete regression suite containing all the testcases.
- Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of TXRX 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.
