USB3.0设备控制器IP核IN端点的功能验证.pdfVIP

Functional Verification about Device Controller IP Core of USB3.0 of IN Endpoint ABSTRACT With the development of integrated circuit and function complicated degree, functional verification of integrated circuit graduatly becomes a major task. Now, 60% to 70% of the whole development process work load is functional verification of integrated circuit. Efficient verification method can not only ensure the correctness of the integrated circuit design, but also be the key to improve integrated circuit design efficiency. IP reuse technology is the core of modern integrated circuit design, and the design of IP core is one of the most important parts. Improving the design efficiency must improve the accuracy of the IP core, so the research of IP core functional verification has an important significance. In this paper, the main contents are as follows: (1) Deeply research on the standard of data link layer and protocol layer according to functional specifications of a USB3.0 device controller IP core, including the transmission ways of IN endpoint of the USB3.0 device controller, all kinds of packets and physical significance of fields in the link command. (2) Decision of test strategy. Test platform includes host, IP core and application core. Then confirm subsidiary module function and implementation language Verilog according to the function of each module. (3) Integrate host, IP core and application core into a complete test system by functional simulation of host and application core with Verilog. (4) Wirting test vectors. IP core is able to be configured to bulk, interrupt, isochronous transaction, and then it is simulated in the Modelsim through the test platform. Analysising results and finding out errors in the IP core. Errors will be given feedback to the designers. Then verify