PMBus Verification IP

Truechip's PMBus Verification IP provides an effective & efficient way to verify the components interfacing with PMBus interface of an IP or SoC. Truechip's PMBus VIP is fully compliant with Rev. 1.4 of PMBus specifications. This VIP is a lightweight VIP with easy plug-and-play interface so that there is no hit on the design cycle time.

Key Benifits

• Available in native SystemVerilog (UVM/OVM/VMM) and Verilog
• Unique development methodology to ensure highest level of quality.
• Availability of Compliance & 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

• Fully compliant with Rev. 1.4 of the PMBus Specification.
• Support for all SMBus protocols with and without PEC (Packet Error Checking).
• Support for SMBus ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) for dynamically assigning a unique address to each slave device.
• Support Group command protocol for multiple PMBus device communication.
• In addition to command code protocols also supports extended command code protocol.
• Supports ZONE_CONFIG & ZONE_ACTIVE commands.
• Zone read and Zone write to access some or all devices on bus including their pages.
• Support for Command control code and all PMBus commands.
• Support STATUS_BYTE And STATUS_WORD command for fault management and reporting
• Supports generation of transactions with UVM register model.
• Built in Bus Monitor provides extensive protocol checking.
• Supports various error injection and detection.
• Provides verification scalability using functional coverage.
• Provides logging facility for bus traffic in the ASCII format and in user configurable mode.
• Supports timing checks in the Monitor.
• Callbacks for user-defined transfers.
• Supports transaction logging with detailed description of each transfer
• Graphical analyser to show transactions for easy debugging

Deliverables

• PMBus Master/Slave Agent
• PMBus Monitor and Scoreboard
• Test environment and test suit
  • Basic and directed protocol tests
  • Random Tests
  • Error Scenario Tests
  • Assertions & Cover Point Tests
• Integration Guide, User Manual and Release Notes