Testing of AMBA AXI Protocol

Abstract

The rapidly expanding VLSI sector has a great need for a very robust verification mechanism that can be developed in a short amount of time in the constantly changing environment where new intellectual property and chips are being designed every day having reduced time-to-market. (SoC) System on Chip design emerged as a primary integrated technique for reducing the design time of the entire system with the introduction of a standardized signal bus architecture used for the connectivity of different modules of the system. One of the major difficulties at hand is how to check these on chip bus protocols, since traditional old methods are ineffective in certifying large SoCs. In this paper, we have verified AMBA AXI protocol which shows write as well as read operations using System Verilog. Keywords: AMBA AXI, APB, AHB.