NVMe 2.3 Verification IP

Truechip's NVMe 2.3 Verification IP provides an effective & efficient way to verify the components interfacing with PCIe/AXI interface of an IP or SoC. Truechip's NVMe 2.3 VIP is fully compliant with the latest NVMe specifications. 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 System Verilog (UVM/OVM/ VMM) and Verilog
• Unique development methodology to ensure the highest levels of quality
• Availability of Compliance & Regression Test Suites
• 24X5 customer support
• Unique and customizable licensing models
• Exhaustive set of assertions and coverage points with a connectivity example for all the components
• Consistency of interface, installation, operation, and documentation across all our VIPs
• Provide a complete solution and easy integration in IP and SoC environments

Features

• Compliant with the NVMe 2.3, 2.2, 2, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2 specifications.
• Compliant with PCI Express Specifications 7.0 (128GT/S), 6.4 (64GT/s), 5.0 v1.0(32GT/s), 4.0 v1.0 (16GT/s), 3.0 (8GT/s), 2.0 (5GT/s) and 1.1 (2.5GT/s).
• Compliant with PIPE Specification 7.0, 6.2, 5.1, 4.4.1.
• NVMe on top of Low Power, AXI, PCIe Gen7/6/5/4/3 management
• Fully categorized test plan for all kinds of NVMe commands.
• Supports fused operation.
• Supports the on-the-fly queue creation and deletion.
• Support for NVMe subsystem Reset.
• Support for PRP and SGL for data transfer.
• Support for queue priority.
• NVMe Specification Version Reporting
• Supports all mandatory commands.
• Configurable number of outstanding Abort and Asynchronous commands.
• Supports multiple Namespaces.
• Support for Namespace Attachment, Namespace Management and Format NVM commands.
• Configurable number of IO completion and submission queues with configurable number of queue size.
• Support for MSI, MSIx and PIN based interrupt mechanisms.
• Support for Verify command.
• Truechip proprietary Address mapping for SSD address mapping.
• Both AXI bus and Truechip proprietary bus for transferring data to SSD are supported.
• Support for Host Memory Buffer feature with configurable host memory size and number of hosts.
• All Directive commands with both Identify and Stream Directive types are supported with a configurable number of stream resources.
• Support for Sanitize command with all three supported sanitize methods.
• Support for Sanitize Per Namespace, enabling sanitize operations on individual namespaces instead of the entire NVM subsystem.
• Support for Telemetry.
• Support for NVM sets, PMR regions and Read recovery levels.
• APB Support to configure DUT registers.
• Support for Virtualization with configurable number of controllers on virtual function.
• Support for Metadata Handling.
• End-to-end data protection (T10 DIF and DIX compatible).
• Security sends and receives command support.
• Firmware update and activation.
• Support for Autonomous power management.
• Robust error reporting.
• Interrupt coalescing configuration control.
• Capability discovery and configuration.
• Up to 64K I/O queues each with up to 64K entries.
• Fixed-size 64B submission commands and 16B completions enable fast and efficient command decode and execution.
• Supports advanced System Verilog features like constrained random testing.
• Supports dynamically configurable modes
• Support for NVME MI 1.0 specification version
• Complaint with UNH-IOL NVMe Conformance v13.0
• Support for Configurable Device Personality, allowing a host to switch NVM subsystem configurations without a separate SKU.
• Support for Power Limit Config, allowing the host to constrain the controller to lower-power operational states.
• Support for Self-Reported Drive Power, including interval power measurement, energy consumption, and threshold-based reporting.
• Support for Read into Read-Only PMR, clarifying controller behaviour for internal PMR write access.
• Support for Rapid Path Failure Recovery, including Cross-Controller Reset and Lost Host Communication reporting on message-based transport

Deliverables

• ​NVM EXPRESS Host/ NVMe Controller
• NVM EXPRESS Monitor and Scoreboard
• Test Environment & Test Suite:
  • Basic and Directed Protocol Tests
  • Random Tests
  • Error Scenario Tests
  • Assertions & Cover Point Tests
  • Compliance Tests
• Documents:
  • Integration Guide
  • User Manual
  • Quick Start Guide, Release Notes
  • FAQs