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ARM ACE Assertion-Based Verification IP (ABVIP) Available Now-November 27, 2012 |
As anyone who has worked with ARM's AMBA 4 AXI Coherency Extensions -- a/k/a the "ACE" protocol -- knows, there are a ton of different configuration options and operational scenarios available to the designer. Of course, this flexibility and power presents a significant verification challenge. Hence, building on the success of our ACE Universal Verification Component (UVC) Verification IP product, we are excited to announce the immediate availability of the complementary Assertion-Based Verification IP (ABVIP) for ACE. Written in standard IEEE System Verilog Assertions (SVA), this new ACE ABVIP simultaneously supports simulation-centric ABV, pure formal analysis, and mixed formal and simulation verification flows.
In this 3 minute video, R&D Product Expert Joerg Muller outlines the main capabilities of this new product -- how it offers specific configuration, run time performance, and context-sensitive work-flow advantages in the SimVision debug environment vs. competitive offerings: