40/100G Ethernet Verification IP
Ensuring flawless chip designs with trusted IP verification solutions
Overview
Silicon Yard’s 40G/100G Ethernet Verification IP offers an effective and efficient way to verify components interfacing with the Ethernet interface of an IP or SoC. Fully compliant with the IEEE 802.3-2022 specification, this Verification IP (VIP) is lightweight and features an easy plug-and-play interface, minimizing impact on the design cycle.
Key Benefits
- Native System Verilog (UVM): Available in native System Verilog (UVM) to streamline integration.
- Quality Development Methodology: Ensures the highest levels of quality.
- Flexible Licensing Models: Unique and customizable to suit varied needs.
- Exhaustive Assertions & Coverage Points: Includes a comprehensive set with connectivity examples for all components.
- Consistency: Uniform interface, installation, operation, and documentation across all VIPs.
- Complete Solution: Easy integration in both IP and SoC environments.
Features
40G Ethernet (IEEE 802.3-2022)
- XLGMII Support: Ensures compatibility with Ethernet XLGMII.
- FEC, PCS, SerDes Support: Provides Forward Error Correction (FEC), Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS), and serializer/deserializer (SerDes).
- KR4 & CR4 Support: Supports multiple standards including [T, LR4, SR4, ER4, FR].
100G Ethernet (IEEE 802.3-2022)
- CGMII Support: Ensures compatibility with 100G Ethernet.
- FEC/RS-FEC Support: Provides both standard and Reed-Solomon FEC.
- PCS Support: Comprehensive support for the Physical Coding Sublayer.
- KR4, CR4 & CR10 Support: Supports standards including [SR10, LR4, ER4, ZR].
- Energy Efficient Ethernet: Supports energy-efficient operations.
- PCS to SerDes Interface: Supports all possible widths.
- Clock Data Recovery (CDR): Ensures stable data recovery.
- Pause Frame-Based Flow Control: Enhances data flow management.
- Test Pattern Generation & Checking: Built-in support for test pattern generation and validation.
- Management Data Registers: Supports Management Data Input/Output registers.
- Full-Duplex Operation: Ensures bidirectional data flow.
- Callback Support: Available in all layers to provide user control.
- Rich Configurations & Parameters: Offers a wide range of customizable options.
- Dynamic & Static Error Injection: Supports both dynamic and static error injection scenarios.
- On-the-Fly Protocol Checking: Provides static and dynamic assertion checks.
- Built-In Coverage Analysis: Facilitates thorough coverage analysis.
- Graphical Analyzer: Visual transaction analysis for easier debugging.
