CPRI/eCPRI Verification IP

Truechip's CPRI/eCPRI Verification IP provides an effective & efficient way to verify the components interfacing with CPRI/eCPRI interface of an IP or SoC. Truechip's CPRI/eCPRI VIP is fully compliant with CPRI V7.1 and eCPRI V2.0 specifications with backward compatibility with previous versions. This VIP is lightweight with an 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 the highest levels of quality
• Availability of Conformance and Regression Test Suites
• 24X5 customer support
• Unique and customizable licensing models
• Exhaustive set of assertions and cover points with connectivity examples for all the components
• Consistency of interface, installation, operation, and documentation across all our VIPs
• Provide complete solutions and easy integration in IP and SoC environment

Features

CPRI

• Fully compliant with CPRI specification V7.0 with backward compatibility
• Supports the following line bit rates of CPRI specification-
  • 614.4 Mbit/s, 1228.8 Mbit/s, 3072.0 Mbit/s, 4915.3 Mbit/s, 6144.0 Mbit/s, 9830.4 Mbit/s, 8110.08 Mbit/s, 10137.6 Mbit/s, 12165.12Mbit/s
• Supports 8B/10B and 64B/66B line coding and scrambling/ descrambling and RSFEC.
• Supports Physical Link Layer(Layer1) and Data Link Layer(Layer2)
• Supports all 3 Service Acess Points(SAPs) at Layer2
  • Control and Management Plane transport mechanisms
  • User Plane data
  • synchronization
• Provides start-up sequence state machine for REC and RE
• Performs L1 synchronization and line bit rate negotiation.
• Supports protocol version negotiation.
• Supports C&M channel bit rate negotiation
• Supports Fast C&M channel based on Ethernet for each line bit rate.
• Support slow C&M channel based on HDLC with the following bit rates- 
  • 240 kbit/s, 480 kbit/s, 960 kbit/s, 1920 kbit/s, 2400 kbit/s, HDLC bit rate negotiation on higher layer
• Supports L1 inband protocol.
• Supports 100BASE-X PCS for Ethernet channel.
• Supports interface for vendor-specific information. 
• Supports passive link(Disabling C&M channel)
• Supports detection of LOS, LOF, RAI, and SDI. 
• Supports different IQ data sampling widths-
  • Downlink -> 8, 9, 10.....20 bits
  • Uplink -> 4, 5, 6....... 20 bits
• Supports different oversampling ratios-
  • Downlink -> 1, 2
  • Uplink -> 2, 4

eCPRI

• Fully compliant with eCPRI Specification V2.0
• Supports complete eCPRI Tx/Rx functionality
• Supports eCPRI Layer of eCPRI Specifications
• Supports 5G and increased efficiency
• Supports Ethernets speeds 10G/25G/40G/100G
• Supports all message types defined in ecPRI Specs
• Supports data transfer through Ethernet interface
• Full support for IEEE 1588-2008
• Scrambler Error insertion supported
• Supports test pattern generation and checking.
• Callback support to provide user control.
• Rich set of configuration and parameters.
• Supports Dynamic as well as Static Error Injection scenarios.
• Built-in Coverage analysis.
• Graphical analyzer to show transactions for easy debugging.

Deliverables

• CPRI nodes -
  • REC (Radio equipment control) Node
  • RE (Radio Equipment) Node
• CPRI/eCPRI monitorCPRI/eCPRI Scoreboard 
• Test environment and Test Suite-
  • Basic and Directed Protocol Tests
  • Random Tests
  • Error Scenario Tests
  • Assertions & Cover Point Tests
  • User Test Suite
• Integration Guide, User Manual and Release Notes