Overview

Gold standard for Quad-SPI memory device for your IP, SoC, and system-level design verification.

In production since 2018 for many production designs.

The Cadence Verification IP (VIP) for Quad SPI provides verification of Q-SPI NOR devices using the SPI protocol. The VIP for Q-SPI is compatible with the industry-standard Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), runs on all leading simulators, and leverages the industry-standard Cadence Memory Model core architecture, interface, and use model.

Supported Specification: All major vendors such as Micron, Macronix, Winbond, Cypress, and GigaDevices.

Q-SPI diagram

Product Highlights

  • Hundreds of protocol and timing checkers to easily catch design bugs
  • Hundreds of predefined configurations based on specific memory vendors' part numbers, datasheets, or generic JEDEC definitions available on ememory.cadence.com
  • Transaction and memory callbacks for all protocol, model states, and device memory events
  • Error injection capability through user modification of transaction contents
  • Ability to check for errors and change error severity
  • Ability to dynamically change configuration parameters
  • Packet tracker creation for easy debugging
  • Support testbench language interfaces for SystemVerilog and UVM

Key Features

The following are the key features of the Q-SPI device standard supported by the Cadence VIP:

Feature Name

Description

Device Density
  • From 256Mb to 2Gb with frequency up to 166MHz

Operation Mode
  • Single I/O, Dual I/O, and Quad I/O (Q-SPI and QSPI) with single and double transfer rate (STR and DTR)

RESET
  • Supports soft reset using the Reset command and hard reset using the Reset Pin are available

Device Identification
  • Supports Read Q-SPI Serial Flash Discoverable parameter (Read SFDP command) and Device Identification and factory features using JEDEC-standard 3-byte signature, Extended device ID

Configuration Capability
  • Volatile and non-volatile configuration register settings to change the mode of the model, dummy cycle number for FAST read operation, and 3-byte or 4-byte addressing

Fast Boot Feature
  • Fast Boot feature support to provide the ability to automatically execute Read operation after Power on cycle or Reset without any Read command based on the configuration of Fast Boot register values

Commands
  • Supports READ, FAST READ, 2READ, DREAD, 4READ, QREAD and Burst Read for 16-byte, 32-byte, and 64-byte Wrap Bursts for Read commands
  • Supports Quad Output, Quad I/O, DTR Quad Output, DTR Quad I/O, including all 4-Bytre Fast Read commands
  • Supports PAGE Program, Dual Page Program, and Quad Page Program instructions
  • Supports Quad Input, Extended Quad Input, 4-Bytes Quad Input, 4-Byte Extended Quad Input and DTR 4-Bytes Quad Input Fast Program
  • Supports Bulk erase (Chip Erase), Sector erase uniform granularity and Sub-sector erase 4KB, 32KB, 64KB granularity
  • Supports PROGRAM and ERASE SUSPEND operations
  • Supports Device Input and Output timing and Variants memory operations timing
  • Supports Configuration Registers: Volatile Configuration Register 1 and 2, Non-Volatile Configuration Register 1 and 2

Deep Power Down Mode
  • Does not accept commands except Release and Exit from the Deep Power Down Command

Preamble Data Pattern
  • Based on the PBE bit value, Selected Preamble Pattern will be inputted to the Dummy Cycles

Security and Write Protection
  • One-time program (OTP) array of 1024 bytes
  • Status Register bits to control protection against program or erase of a contiguous range of sectors: Hardware and software control options, Advanced Sector Protection (ASP), Individual sector protection controlled by boot code or password, Block Protection defined protected area size

Additional Functionalities
  • Execute-in-place (XIP), Data Learning Registers, high-performance Read mode

Simulation Test Suite

MM has a rich test suite of scenarios for easy MM evaluation and deployment.

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