DESIGN AND VERIFICATION ENVIRONMENT FOR AMBA AXI PROTOCOL FOR SOC INTEGRATION

Pradeep S R, Laxmi C

Abstract: Advanced microcontroller bus architecture (AMBA) protocol family provides a metric-driven verification of protocol compliance, enabling the comprehensive testing of interface intellectual property (IP) blocks and system-on-chip (SoC) design. The AMBA advanced extensible interface 4 (AXI4) update to AMBA AXI3 includes: the support for burst lengths up to 256 beats. It is updated write response requirements and removal of locked transactions. Verification has become the dominant cost in the design process. This paper proposes a work, how to build up the verification environment of AXI bus using SystemVerilog is introduced. Functional coverage, score-boarding and assertions is implemented with the proposed integrated verification environment

Keywords: AMBA, AXI, Verification, System Verilog etc…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0315066