AMBA ATB Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the AMBA ATB component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform. The SmartDV's AMBA ATB Synthesizable Transactor is fully compliant with standard ARM AMBA 3 ATB (ATB v1.0) and AMBA 4 ATB (ATB v1.1) Specification and provides the following features
- Features
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- Compliant to ARM AMBA 3 ATB (ATB v1.0) and AMBA 4 ATB (ATB v1.1) Protocol.
- Support AMBA ATB Master, ATB Slave and ATB Checker.
- Support for multiple masters and slaves.
- Supports all ARM AMBA ATB 1.0/1.1 data, byte and ID widths.
- ATB 1.0/ATB 1.1 common support
- Supports Flow control - valid/ready signaling for trace data.
- Supports different types of Flush Request control - Flush valid/ready signaling with trace data.
- Support for programmable delays.
- Supports capturing of valid trace data.
- Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
- Flexibility to send completely configured data.
- Programmable ID's for the trace transfers.
- Programmable Timeout insertion.
- Ability to inject errors during data transfer.
- ATB 1.1 support
- In addition to ATB 1.0 support, ATB 1.1 supports the following features,
- Supports enable and disable access for clock.
- Supports Synchronization Request operations.
- Supports trace triggering operations.
- Rich set of configuration parameters to control AMBA ATB functionality.
- On-the-fly protocol and data checking.
- Notifies the testbench of significant events such as transactions, warnings,timing and protocol violations.
- Status counters for various events on bus.
- AMBA ATB SimXL comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of ARM AMBA ATB 1.0/1.1 specification
- Benefits
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- Compatible with testbench writing using SmartDV VIP's.
- All UVM sequences/testcases written with VIP can be reused.
- Runs in every major emulators environment.
- Runs in custom FPGA platforms.
- AMBA ATB Synthesizable Transactor Env
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SmartDV's AMBA ATB Synthesizable env contains following:
- Synthesizable transactors
- Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA ATB testcases
- Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Synthesizable Transactor
- Detailed documentation of all class, task and functions used in verification env
- Documentation contains User's Guide and Release notes