Overview

Best in class MIPI® SoundWiresm Verification IP for your IP, SoC, and system-level design testing.

In production since 2015 on dozens of production designs.

The Cadence®Verification IP (VIP) for the MIPI® SoundWiresm Protocol provides a bus functional model (BFM), integrated automatic protocol checks and coverage model. It supports active or passive Manager, monitor, and a configurable number of Peripherals (1-11).

MIPI SoundWire diagram

Product Highlights

  • Support testbench language interfaces for SystemVerilog, UVM, OVM, e, and SystemC
  • Generates constrained-random bus traffic with predefined error injection
  • Callbacks access at multiple TX and RX queue points for scoreboarding and data manipulation
  • Packet tracker creation for easy debugging of frames and data payload
  • Dynamic activation to enable setting the VIP as active/passive during run time
  • Provides extensive coverage in e and SystemVerilog

Key Features

The following table describes key features from the specifications that are implemented in the VIP:

Feature Name

Description

Multi-lane Payload Transport
  • Up to 8 data lanes are supported

High-PHY Mode
  • High-performance PHY

Synchronization
  • Sync Peripheral with Manager SoundWire frame

Enumeration
  • Manager assigns Dev_num for each newly attached Peripheral

Data Payload Traffic
  • Peripheral and Manager devices can send data payload traffic

Bank Switching
  • Frame size and DP channels can be switched during activity

Resets
  • Ability to perform all kinds of resets on the fly

Error Scenarios
  • Manager and Peripheral can generate error scenarios

Interrupts
  • Peripheral VIP replies automatically when interrupt needs to be generated based on configuration

Dynamic Peripheral Devices
  • Dynamic addition and removal of Peripheral devices

Multicast and Broadcast Peripheral Accesses
  • Manager can access Peripheral registers through broadcast and multicast

Test Data Modes
  • Support of static and PRBS data payload sending

Peripheral Command Responses
  • Peripheral VIP automatically replies with appropriate command responses

Command Ownership
  • Monitor can take command ownership from Manager

Flow Control
  • Peripheral and Manager devices can send asynchronous data payload traffic

Bulk Payload
  • Peripheral and Manager devices support Bulk Payload Transport Protocol

Manager PHY Test MMDEs
  • Manager device supports PHY test modes

Full, reduced, and simplified data ports
  • Support in Full, Reduced, and Simplified Data Ports

Limited WordLength
  • Support in a limited set of values of the WordLength field

SDCA Interrupt Handling
  • Support all the SDCA interrupt registers and interrupt cascading

Severe Reset
  • Support to handle severe reset condition added

PHY Controlling Registers
  • Added support for PHY controlling registers

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