ARM Announced the AMBA Adaptive Verification IP for On-Chip Communication System

At the 44th Design Automation Conference in San Diego, ARM announced the AMBA Adaptive Verification IP. The new product combines the time-to-market advantages of automated verification with the quality of in-context. Adaptive Verification IP enhances existing SoC verification methodologies, via the an engine for extracting and applying traffic profile information to predict how systems will perform. Adaptive Verification IP complements existing random or directed-random methods with a powerful new approach to reducing overall verification time and accuracy.

Adaptive Verification IP can also be licensed as an add-on to the RealView SoC Designer tool, which provides a system-level framework that architects of today's most complex SoCs use to create, explore and optimize platforms long before the hardware and software teams begin their work.

Jonathan Morris, ARM, stated:

To be successful in the market, tomorrow's complex consumer devices must run multiple applications simultaneously, which requires fast and efficient on-chip communication…

To minimize risk, designers need a complete toolbox, including on-chip communication and verification IP, plus a tools framework that enables them to configure, analyze and verify their complex SoC devices…

Adaptive Verification IP is written C++ and encapsulated in System Verilog for RTL compatibility. Adaptive Verification IP can also be licensed standalone for use within all popular verification tool flows from the leading EDA vendors

Mentor Graphics is the first major EDA vendor to ensure that Adaptive Verification IP functions smoothly within its verification methodology.

Robert Hum, Mentor Graphics Design Verification and Test Division, said:

We've been working closely with ARM to integrate the new Adaptive Verification IP into Questa and our Advanced Verification Methodology (AVM)…

Our Questa second generation verification platform is specifically designed to address the verification needs of today's extremely complex SoC devices, for which the de facto interconnect specification is AMBA. This combined solution will give customers greatly improved verification productivity and the confidence that they have met their system functionality and performance goals…

AMBA Adaptive Verification IP is scheduled to be available in Q3-Q4 this year.

Further reading: ARM’s AMBA Adaptive Verification IP