PMBUS Assertion IP provides an efficient and smart way to verify the PMBUS designs quickly without a testbench. The SmartDV's PMBUS Assertion IP is fully compliant with standard PMBUS Specification.
PMBUS Assertion IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env
PMBUS Assertion IP comes with optional Smart Visual Protocol Debugger (Smart ViPDebug), which is GUI based debugger to speed up debugging.
- Features
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- Specification Compliance
- Supports all the PMBus commands as per the specs.
- Supports all the extended and normal command codes.
- Send byte command
- Receive byte command
- Write byte command
- Write word command
- Read byte command
- Read word command
- Process call command
- Block write command
- Block read command
- Group command
- Block write and read process call command
- Extended command read byte
- Extended command read word
- Extended command write byte
- Extended command write word
- Supports programmable clock frequency of operation.
- Bus-accurate timing.
- Packet Error Checking (PEC) support
- PEC Error.
- NACK for PEC code by slave.
- ACK for PEC code by master.
- Master asserted stop condition before PEC byte.
- NACK for command code byte by slave.
- NACK for second address byte after repeated start to same slaves.
- Implements all registers and commands as per the PMBUS specification.
- Assertion IP features
- Assertion IP includes:
- System Verilog assertions
- System Verilog assumptions
- System Verilog cover properties
- Synthesizable Verilog Auxiliary code
- Support Master mode, Slave mode, Monitor mode and Constraint mode.
- Supports Simulation mode (stimulus from SmartDV PMBUS VIP) and Formal mode (stimulus from Formal tool).
- Rich set of parameters to configure PMBUS Assertion IP functionality.
- Benefits
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- Runs in every major formal and simulation environment.
- PMBUS Assertion Env
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SmartDV's PMBUS Assertion env contains following.
- Detailed documentation of Assertion IP usage.
- Documentation also contains User's Guide and Release notes.
