USB 4.0 HUB Verification IP

Truechip's USB4 Verification IP with HUB that provides an effective & efficient way to verify the components interfacing with USB4 interface of an IP or SoC, Truechip's USB4 VIP is fully compliant with standard USB4 specification from USB-IF. This VIP is a 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 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 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 standard USB4 specification v1.0.
• Supports USB3.2 Specification, Revision 1.0 and backward compatibility to USB2.0.  
• Supports USB Power Delivery Release 3.0, Version 2.0 and Type-C v2.0.
• Supports Thunderbolt (TBT3) interoperability.
• Compliant with PCIe Revision 4 and Display Port 1.4a with Alt Mode support.
• Supports SERDES and PIPE v6.1 Interface for USB4.
• Compliant with CTSs USB4CV 0.9.2.3 Testsuite
• Supports tunneled traffic of PCIe, USB3 and DisplayPort.
• Supports USB4 Gen2 and Gen3 operations with RSFEC and Lane Bonding support.
• Supports USB4 Connectivity of Device Routers at all possible Depths in USB4 Spanning Tree.
• Supports USB2 data transfer using USB2 channel in parallel to USB4 channel.
• USB4 Hub supports USB3 Data transfer for internal USB3.2 HUB using USB3 tunneling via USB3 Protocol adapters or using internal xHCI Controller via PCIe tunneling.
• USB4 Hub supports USB2 Data transfer for internal USB2 HUB using internal xHCI Controller via PCIe tunneling.
• USB4 Hub supports packet forward mechanism to the destined downstream port.
• USB4 Hub maintains links at all link partners connected at Upstream Port and single/multiple Downstream Ports.
• USB4 Hub supports default control endpoint and interrupt endpoint to provide Host with necessary information regarding the hub and all of its ports.
• USB4 Hub supports all hub specific control transfers eg. get_hub_status
• USB4 Hub contacts USB3.2 HUB using Pipe Interface during USB3 tunneling via Protocol adapters.
• USB4 Hub also supports operations at Gen2 and Gen3 speeds with Dual-link support.
• Supports Inter-Domain and TMU with STLP mode enabled.
• Supports LFPS transmission and detection mechanism.
• Supports Sideband communication via AT, RT and LT Transactions.
• Supports Lane Initialization and its bypass mechanism.  
• Supports Skew/Deskew management.
• Supports run-time controllable disable and disconnect mechanism.
• Supports Sleep and Wake mechanism. 
• Supports all logical layer ordered sets like SLOS, TS1, TS2, CL1_REQ, CL1_ACK, etc.
• Supports 64/66b and 128/132b encoding/decoding.
• Supports Reed Solomon-Forward Error Correction (RS-FEC) Error detection and recovery mechanism.
• Support for all power management states (CL0s, CL1 and CL2) is provided.
• Resets like Power-On Reset, On-the-Fly Reset etc. are supported.
• User controlled device attach/detach function.
• Supports Scrambler/Descrambler and their bypass mechanism.
• Provides SSC and PPM support.
• Supports Sideband register space and Configuration space.
• Supports all the Lane Adapter states including all optional low power states.
• Supports USB4 Port Disconnect operation and Lane Disable/Enable mechanism.
• Supports Tunneled Link Management and Control Packets.
• Provides Bandwidth arbitration and prioritization of traffic in a Domain.
• Supports Path setup and Path Teardown mechanism.
• Supports Credit-based flow control mechanism.
• Creates and manages routing tables for connected Ingress and Egress adapters.
• Supports Bandwidth arbitration and Priority schedulers.
• Supports Time synchronization packets and handshakes in both inter-domain and intra-domain.
• Supports Router Configuration and addressing mechanism.
• Provides Enumerations and its bypass mechanism.
• Supports Router state machine.
• Supports hot plug and hot unplug events.
• Supports callback and configuration bit mechanism for error injection and stress test scenarios.

Deliverables

• USB4 Host/Device
• USB4 HUB
• USB4 BFM/Agents for :
  • Electrical Layer
  • Logical Layer
  • Transport Layer
  • Configuration Layer
  • Protocol Adapter Layer – PCIe/USB/DP
  • TMU Block
  • Host Interface Adapter Layer
  • Connection Manager
• USB4 Layered Monitor and Scoreboard
• USB4 Test Environment and Test Suites :
  • Basic and Directed Protocol Tests
  • Low Power Tests
  • Error Scenario Tests
  • Stress Tests for each standard layer
  • Random Tests
  • Compliance Tests
  • Assertions and Cover Points
• Integration Guide, User Manual and Release Notes.
• TrueEye GUI analyzer for simulation packet flow and usage guide.