AMBA ACE5 Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA ACE5 component of a SOC or a ASIC. The SmartDV's AMBA ACE5 Verification IP is fully compliant with standard AMBA ACE5 Specification.
AMBA ACE5 Verification IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env
AMBA ACE5 Verification IP 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 ACE5 Protocol Specification.
- Supports ACE5 Master, Slave, Interconnect, Monitor and Checker.
- Supports all ARM AMBA ACE5 data and address widths.
- Supports all protocol transfer types, burst types, burst lengths and response types.
- Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
- Separate address/control, data and response phases. Separate read, write and snoop 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 specific features
- Supports functionality to verify ACE and Cache Coherent Interconnect functionality for cache.
- Supports all ACE transaction types including Snoop, Evict, WriteEvict and Distributed virtual memory (DVM) transactions.
- Support for multiple outstanding ACE transactions.
- Supports all write/read responses and snoop responses.
- Support for cache model and snoop filtering
- Fine grain control of Initiating Master transaction including main memory access.
- Fine grain control of Interconnect generated snoop transaction to snooped Masters.
- Fine grain control of Interconnect generated main memory access transactions.
- Fine grain control of Snooped Master’s response to a snoop transaction.
- ACE5 specific features
- DVM v8.1
- CMO for Persistence
- Data Check
- Poison
- QoS Accept
- Trace signals
- User Loopback
- Wakeup signals
- Coherency connection signals
- Untranslated transactions
- Non-Secure Access Identifiers
- Programmable Timeout insertion.
- Supports FIFO memory.
- Rich set of configuration parameters to control ACE5 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.
- ACE5 Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of ARM AMBA ACE5 specification.
- Benefits
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- Faster testbench development and more complete verification of AMBA ACE5 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 ACE5 Verification Env
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SmartDV's AMBA ACE5 Verification env contains following.
- Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA ACE5 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.
