Overview

Speeding Verification on Hardware-Based Verification

Accelerated Verification IPs (AVIPs) bring an entirely new level of performance to verification through integration with hardware-based verification using Cadence® Palladium® emulation or Cadence Protium prototyping. AVIPs are primarily used to funnel data from a user supplied test bench (TB) to the user's design under test (DUT) and return results from the DUT to the testbench. Additionally, select AVIPs are available for embedded use without a testbench. Cadence AVIPs are available for most standardized protocols with new protocol support launched on a regular basis. Further Cadence AVIPs support or are integrated into a variety of Cadence verification products.

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Key Benefits

Accelerated VIP Key Benefits

High Performance

Hardware-assisted verification enabled by AVIPs can be 10s to 1,000s of times faster than simulation-based verification

Plug and Play

Fully standardized BFM protocols work out of the box with compliant interfaces

Interoperable with Cadence Verification Tools

Palladium and Protium systems, and Xcelium simulation, and Jasper formal software

Product Highlights

  • AVIPs enable hardware-accelerated simulation by providing a connection to the design under test in the Cadence Palladium emulation or Cadence Protium prototyping systems while the testbench remains in simulation for maximum flexibility.
  • Embedded AVIPs enable more complex verification scenarios by providing standard capabilities, such as storage, required by the scenario but not part of the DUT.
  • AVIPs can be used to extend the DUT to a sufficiently complete system to enable HW/SW co-verification where both the test environment and the design under test run in the Palladium emulation or Protium prototyping system.

Protocols

Accelerated VIP Protocols

Cadence Accelerated VIP are available for the following applications/protocols:

Automotive Protocols

  • The Cadence AVIP for CAN/CAN-FD provides support for the CAN and CAN-FD protocols.
  • The Cadence AVIP for Flexray provides support for the Flexray protocol
  • The Cadence AVIP for LIN provides support for the LIN Protocol

Arm AMBA Family Protocols

The Cadence AVIP for AHB provides support for the Arm AMBA 2, AMBA 3, and AMBA 5 AHB Interface Protocol Specifications, including the AHB-Lite subset, as well as the AMBA 2, AMBA 3, and AMBA 4 APB Interface Protocol Specifications, as well as Arm AMBA ACE, ACE-Lite, ACE5, ACE5-Lite, AXI3, AXI4, AXI4-Lite, AXI5, and CHI Interface Protocol Specifications.

Display Protocols

  • The Cadence AVIP for DisplayPort 2.0 provides support for DisplayPort 1.0 and 2.0 specifications.
  • The Cadence AVIP for DSI provides support for the MIPI Display Serial Interface 1.2 and 2.0 specifications.
  • The Cadence AVIP for HDMI 2.0 provides support for the HDMI 1.3, 1.4, and 2.0 specifications.

Ethernet Multi-Speed Protocols

The Cadence AVIP for Ethernet Multi-Speed provides support for the IEEE 802.3 standard, including MAC and PCS interfaces at 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G/25G/40G/50G/100G/200G/400G/800G speeds.

High Performance Computing and Hyperscale Protocols

  • The Cadence AVIP for CCIX provides support for the CCIX protocol
  • The Cadence AVIP for Compute Express Link provides support for the CXL 1.0 and 2.0 specifications
  • The Cadence AVIP for SR-IOV provides support for the SR-IOV protocol

Mobile Device Protocols

  • The Cadence AVIP for Bluetooth Low Energy provides support for the Bluetooth Alliance Specification for Bluetooth Low Energy
  • The Cadence AVIP for CSI-2 provides support for the MIPI Alliance Specification for Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2sm) Version 2.0 7 December 2016
  • The Cadence AVIP for I2C provides support for the I2C-bus specification and user manual, Rev. 03 19 June 2007
  • The Cadence AVIP for I3C provides support for the I3C-bus specification and user manual
  • The Cadence AVIP for I2S provides support for the I2S bus specification, Philips Semiconductors - 5 June 1996
  • The Cadence AVIP for JESD204 provides support for the JEDEC JESD204 protocol standard
  • The Cadence AVIP for Keypad is based on the KEYPAD BFM Requirement Specification, Version 0.4 19 July 2012.
  • The Cadence AVIP for MIPI DSI provides support for the MIPI Alliance Specification for C-PHYsm, Version 1.2, MIPI Alliance, Inc. 26 November 2016, MIPI Alliance Specification for Display Serial Interface 2 (DSI-2), Version 1.1 02 May 2018, and MIPI Alliance Specification for D-PHYsm, Version 2.0, MIPI Alliance, Inc.

PCIe Protocols

The Cadence AVIP for PCI Express 6.0 provides support for the PCI Express 6.0 Specification including support for PCI Express versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0.

USB Protocols

  • The Cadence AVIP for USB 3.1 provides support for the USB 3.0 specification and USB 3.2 Specification including support for USB versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 Gen 1
  • The Cadence AVIP for USB 4.0 provides support for the USB 4.0 specification

Storage Protocols

The Cadence AVIP for SATA 1.5/3/6G provides support for the Serial ATA Specification 3.0 and the ATA Command Set specification ATA8 version. Supports both external test bench and embedded operation modes.

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