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Avery Design Systems Announces Support for PCI Express 1.1 and Switch Verification Solution

ANDOVER, MA., June 10, 2005 – Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification productivity solutions, today announced that the PCI-Xactor verification solution now supports the recently released PCI Express 1.1 standard. Avery also announced improvements to its PCI Express switch verification solution.

“Early adoption of PCI Express standards developments is an absolute for us to meet the needs of our IP vendor partners and our mutual customers,” said Chilai Huang, president of Avery Design. PCI-Xactor with limited support for PCI Express 1.1 is available now and full support is planned for July 2005 release. The PCI-Xactor switch verification solution has been improved with more advanced features to provide better flexibility to generate multiple switch configurations and verify more switch-specific specification and checklist requirements. “Avery has built up extensive experience in switch chip verification and now offers the premier commercial switch verification solution today,” said Chris Browy, vice president of marketing of Avery Design. The latest release of PCI-Xactor now includes:

  • Switch testbench generator supports N-port switch model generation and N-1 endpoint generation with different lane widths on each port
  • Compliance testsuite verifying switch features including port and VC arbitration under normal and isochronous traffic, transaction ordering rules, interrupt collapsing, error message generation and forwarding, and switch port power management protocols
  • BFM supports isochronous streaming of DMA read/write under traffic shaping parameters
  • SuperMonitor validates transaction completion, ordering, latency, and bandwidth measurement between multiple switch ports
  • Automatic test adaptation which expands a test scenario to run on all downstream ports concurrently

About PCI-Xactor for PCI Express

The PCI-Xactor for PCI Express Verification Solution is a complete verification solution consisting of Bus Function Model (BFM), SuperMonitor, and test suites and verification frameworks for functional verification of PCI Express components. The PCI-Xactor allows design and verification engineers to quickly and extensively test the entire functionality of their PCI Express compliant devices. Verification frameworks form complete testbench environments for endpoint, switch, and bridge designs. Verification engineers just need to replace an Avery BFM with their design and begin running comprehensive verification tests. The PCI-Xactor environment leverages advanced verification techniques of Avery’s TestWizard product supporting complex data structures, transaction database, random generation, temporal property checking, and coverage analysis.

Key Features

  • Verilog source code format for BFMs and testcases
  • Complete set of fully functional BFMs and testbenches for every PCI Express component: Endpoint, Root Complex, Switch, and PCI/PCI-X to PCI Express Bridge
  • Support for serial, 10-bit symbol, and PIPE interfaces.
  • Robust BFM API automates sending TLPs/DLLPs and controlling automatic BFM device response behaviors and link and device state transitions
  • Supports transaction-oriented request-completion and error injection sequences based on address and command type attributes
  • Inject errors and noise at all layers
  • Root Complex provides BIOS enumeration functions to validate OS and PCI2.3 compatibility
  • Test suites include the PCI-SIG-based compliance tests in addition to Avery-based endpoint, root complex, and switch testsuites that target high compliance coverage from their corresponding checklists
  • Test are self-checking, portable, and reusable on most types of designs
  • SuperMonitor verifies transaction ordering in N-port switch and bridge designs
  • Native programming interfaces for Vera, Specman, SystemVerilog, SystemC, VHDL, C/C++

About Avery Design Systems

Avery Design Systems Inc. is a supplier of functional verification products and service that enables dramatic productivity improvements of the ASIC-based systems and SOC verification process.

Additional information about Avery Design Systems is available at http://www.avery-design.com.

For More Information Contact:
Chris Browy
Avery Design Systems
(978) 689-7286
cbrowy@avery-design.com

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