AMBA APB 2,3,4 Verification IP

Truechip's AMBA APB Verification IP provides an effective & efficient way to verify the components interfacing with AMBA® APB bus of an IP or SoC. Truechip's AMBA APB VIP is fully compliant with standard AMBA® 2APB, AMBA® 3 APB v1.0 and AMBA 3 APB v.2.0 (aka APB4) specification from ARM. This VIP is a light weight VIP with easy plug-and-play interface so that there is no hit on the design cycle time.

Key Benefits

• Available in native SystemVerilog (UVM/OVM/VMM) and Verilog 
• Unique development methodology to ensure highest levels of quality
• Availability of various Regression Test Suites
• 24X5 customer support
• Unique and customizable licensing models
• Exhaustive set of assertions and cover points with connectivity example for all the components
• Consistency of interface, installation, operation and documentation across all our VIPs
• Provide complete solution and easy integration in IP and SoC environment

Features

• Compliant to AMBA® 2APB, AMBA® 3 APB v1.0 and AMBA APB v.2.0 (aka APB4).
• Support for all type of AMBA APB devices.
• Supports Parameterized data and address bus.
• Supports bus-endian converter / checker.
• supports continuous transfer mode configuration (SETUPACCESS-SETUP) and protected accesses.
• Rich set of configuration parameters to control APB functionality including constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
• Supports various and Configurable types of memory accesses (read only, secure, reserved etc.)
• Configurable wait states.
• Supports UVM_RAL Model.
• Provides detailed performance monitoring for all the transfers.
• Supports advanced System Verilog features like constrained random testing.
• Supports dynamically configurable modes.
• Strong Protocol Monitor with real time exhaustive programmable checks.
• Supports Dynamic as well as Static Error Injection scenarios.
• On the fly protocol checking using protocol check functions, static and dynamic assertion.
• Built in Coverage analysis.
• Provides a comprehensive user API (callbacks) in all BFMs.
• Graphical analyser to show transactions for easy debugging.

Deliverables

• AMBA APB Bridge/Slave Agent
• AMBA APB Bus Monitor and Scoreboard
• Test Environment & Test Suite :
  •  Basic and Directed Protocol Tests
  •  Random Tests
  •  Error Scenario Tests
  •  Assertions & Cover Point Tests
• Integration Guide, User Manual and Release Notes