AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 Verification IP provides an smart way to verify the ARM AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 component of a SOC or a ASIC. The SmartDV's AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 Verification IP is fully compliant with standard AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 Specification. Our AMBA AXI VIP is proved across multiple customers.
AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 VIP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env
AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 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 AMBA5 AXI and ACE Protocol Specification.
- Supports all protocols/interfaces AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Lite/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/AXI5-Lite/ACE/ACE-Lite/ACE5/ACE5-Lite/ACE5-LiteDVM/ACE5-LiteACP.
- Supports AXI Master, AXI Slave, AXI Interconnect, AXI Monitor and AXI Checker.
- Supports all ARM AMBA AXI/ACE 3.0/4.0/5.0 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.
- AXI3/AXI4/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 Common support
- 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.
- Write address independent response (Driving write data and providing response before address is accepted, after accepting all data).
- Protected accesses with normal/privileged,secure/non-secure and data/instruction
- Support for Write data phase before Write address phase (negative AWVALID to WVALID delay)
- 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(configuration parameter and dynamic change of inactivity timer).
- Configurable WID signal enable support for AXI4/ACE/ACE_LITE.
- AXI3 support
- Write data and read data interleaving support.
- Configurable write and read interleave depth.
- Programmable interleave size per transaction to allow fixed and variable data interleaving in a transaction.
- Low-power Interface support
- Atomic access support with normal access,exclusive access and locked access
- AXI4 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
- AXI4-Lite support
- Burst length of 1.
- Write strobe support.
- Data bus width of 32-bit or 64-bit.
- Ability to issue multiple outstanding transactions.
- ACE support
- In addition to AXI4 features, ACE supports the following features,
- Supports functionality to verify ACE and CCI interconnect functionality for cache.
- Supports all ACE transaction types including Snoop, Evict, WriteEvict, Barrier 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.
- ACE-Lite support
- ACE-Lite has all the support similar to ACE, complying with the Specification for ACE-Lite specific features.
- Barrier transactions
- Shareable and Non-shareable transactions.
- Broadcast cache maintenance operations.
- AXI4-Stream support
- Support for single byte, packet and frame transfers.
- Support for all Data streams including Byte stream, Continuous aligned stream, Continuous unaligned stream and Sparse stream.
- Transfer interleaving support.
- Support for upsizing, downsizing and merging.
- AMBA5 support
- Atomic transactions.
- Cache stashing.
- Deallocating transactions.
- Cache Maintenance for persistence.
- Data Checking and Poison.
- Trace Signals.
- User Loopback Signaling.
- Qos Accept signaling.
- Wakeup Signaling mechanism.
- Coherency Connection signaling
- Distributed Virtual Memory extensions for ARMv8.1
- Untranslated transactions
- Non-secure access identifiers
- Programmable Timeout insertion.
- Supports FIFO memory.
- Rich set of configuration parameters to control AXI 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.
- AXI Verification IP comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of ARM AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 specification.
- Benefits
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- Faster testbench development and more complete verification of AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 designs.
- Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of master and slave.
- Simplifies results analysis.
- Runs in every major simulation environment.
- AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 Verification Env
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SmartDV's AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/ACE5 Verification env contains following.
- Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA AXI3/AXI4/AXI4-Stream/AXI5/ACE/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.