Questa Verification IP for NVM Express

Questa Verification IP for NVMe is a comprehensive solution for exhaustive verification of PCIe-based IP and SoC products. It provides the flexibility to create and cover all possible verification scenarios. Questa VIP for NVMe includes ready-to-use verification components and exhaustive stimuli to increase productivity and accelerate verification signoff.

Benefits

• Architected for ease-of-use and consistency across all protocols
• Comprehensive stimulus and standard-based test suites
• Exhaustive protocol coverage and protocol checks
• UVM based testbench with ready- to use components like monitors, loggers, and scoreboards
• Intuitive debug with transaction viewing and tracker files at various levels

Features

• Latest specification features for host and controller
• Built-in analysis components
  • Protocol checkers
  • Transaction loggers
  • Functional coverage
  • Performance statistics
• Protocol checkers
• Feature-wise extensive stimulus
• Constraint-randomized stimulus with support for error injection

Supported specifications

• NVM Express™ revision 1.4
• PCI Express® base specification
• Revision 4.0, Version 0.7
• AMBA® AXI and ACE protocol specification (ARM® IHI0022E)
• UNH-IOL NVMe testing service, test plan for NVMe conformance, version 10.0