Faster verification for PCI Express devices

eInfochips and Verisity are working with Intel to deliver a PCI Express e Verification Component (eVCTM).

eInfochips and Verisity are working with Intel to deliver a PCI Express e Verification Component (eVCTM).

eInfochips, a member of Verisity's Verification Alliance partners programme, will develop the eVC.

To ensure that the eVC delivers complete protocol checking, Intel plans to provide PCI-Express enabling tools to eInfochips.

Verisity will certify the eVC's compliance with the e Reuse Methodology (eRM) to ensure that it will plug-and-play with all other eRM compliant eVCs.

eVCs are reusable plug-and-play verification components for standard protocols and interfaces.

They are based on Verisity's high-level verification language, e, and the Specman Elite testbench automation tool.

eVCs comprise a complete verification environment including stimulus generation, checking and monitoring, and functional coverage analysis.

eVCs are configurable and extensible to satisfy each specific verification environment's requirements.

As with all eVCs, the PCI Express eVC will shorten the time needed to create a verification environment as well as improve chip quality.

"eInfochips is at the forefront of advanced verification methodologies and is a highly experienced eVC developer.

PCI Express will be our fifth eVC", stated Pratul Shroff, CEO of eInfochips.

"We have already delivered our PCI-X eVC to many satisfied customers and we are pleased to be working with Intel to develop the PCI Express eVC.

It should inspire confidence that we are verifying the eVC against Intel's PCI-Express technology.

Being a close partner with Verisity, the creators of the eVC concept and the e Reuse Methodology (eRM), is also key to the successful delivery of the PCI Express eVC".

"The industry is moving forward with the transition across platforms to PCI Express", said Jason Ziller, Intel Technology Initiatives Manager.

"PCI Express provides the performance and system design flexibility required for the present and next generation computing and communications platform component interconnects while also providing a long-term path to improved I/O slots.

We look forward to working with eInfochips on their development of PCI-Express verification components".

"Verification IP has become a strategic asset for our customers", explained Pete Heller, eVC Product Line Manager for Verisity.

"eInfochips' PCI Express eVC will be a very important component within the verification environment for designs employing the PCI Express standard.

We are also pleased to be working with eInfochips as they migrate all their eVCs to comply with Verisity's e Reuse Methodology (eRM).

This will ensure that all eVCs will plug-and-play and behave consistently".

eInfochips' PCI Express eVC will be a ready-made highly configurable e verification component suitable for any DUT that interfaces with a PCI Express bus.

It is easy to configure and integrate with each specific ASIC.

The eInfochips PCI Express eVC leverages the power of Specman Elite and its associated verification methodology to develop a robust verification environment in the least possible time and to ensure that the protocol is thoroughly exercised.

The eVC includes a set of the behavioural models and test suites written in the e language.

The models are tools for system designers to exercise and debug the design of components and/or systems based on the PCI Express standard.

The environment will include models of PCI Express master and target devices, a PCI Express arbiter to control bus access, a protocol and timing monitor to check for and report protocol violations and functional coverage analysis.

In addition a full suite of compliance test scenarios to verify compliance to PCI Express specification will be provided with the eVC.

eInfochips' PCI Express eVC will be a available in the fourth quarter of 2002.

The list price for a single annual time-based licence is $15,000.

Discounts are available for multiple unit licenses.

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