SD Express Card Verification IP

Truechip’s SD Express Card Verification IP provides an effective & efficient way to verify the components interfacing with SD Express Interface of an ASIC/FPGA or SoC.

Truechip’s SD Express Card VIP is fully compliant with Standard SD card v7.00 specifications from SD Organization. The VIP is a light weight VIP with easy plug-and-play interface so that there is not hit on the design time and simulation 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 the VIP
• Provide complete solution and easy integration in IP and SoC environment

Features

• Compliant to SD Specification v7.00
• SD Express card supports NVMe protocol over PCIe Interface
• Supports SD and PCIe Mode
• Supports PCIe Gen3 Single lane with Dual simplex point to point serial connection
• Supports 128/130 encoding with two differential I/O of 8Gpbs transfer, producing upto 985MB/s for each direction
• Support for Hot plug-in/out
• Support NVM-Express over PCIe interface
• Supports Host Memory Buffer by MVMe
• Supports NVMe with multi queues and no locking mechanism
• Supports all Capacity of Memory i.e.
• Standard Capacity SD Memory Card (SDSC)
• High Capacity SD Memory Card (SDHC)
• Extended Capacity SD Memory Card (SDXC)
• Ultra Capacity SD Memory Card (SDUC)
• All UHS1 modes – SDR50/SDR104/DDR50 supported for backward compatibility
• Support for all types of speed classes (SC,UHS SC and VSC)
• Support for Application Performance Classes
• Supports command queuing
• Support for Self Maintenance and Cache
• Support for FULE and Discard
• Support for LVS and Power Management
• Support for Extension register
• Supports Pseudo Initialization mode
• Supports Password protection (card lock /unlock) through SD mode
• Supports Card internal Write protect using SD mode
• Supports CPRM Security through SD mode
• Supports PCIe Linkup Mode
• Supports card ownership protection
• Supports address extension command
• Support for video class specification
• Protocol checker that shoots errors in case of violations. Some of the errors are Out of range error, CRC error, Misalignment error , Invalid queue error  etc
• Provides full control to user to enable/disable various types of messages
• Supports full timing models or bus functional models
• Supports Dynamic as well as static Error injection scenarios
• On the fly protocol checking using protocol check function, static and dynamic assertions
• Provides a comprehensive user API (callbacks) in BFMs
• Supports advanced System Verilog features like constrained random testing
• Built in Coverage analysis.
• Graphical Analyzer to show transactions for easy debugging.

Deliverables

• SD Express Memory Card Model
• SD Express Monitor & Scoreboard
• SD Express Host  Model
• Test-Bench Configurations
• Test Suite (Available in Source code)
  • Basic Protocol Tests
  • Directed & Random Tests
  • Assertions & Cover Point Tests
  • Error injection Scenarios Tests
• Integration Guide, User Manual and Release Notes
• GUI analyzer to view simulation packet flow.