Altera Mentor Verification IP Altera Edition AMBA AXI3/4TM - Manual (Page 627)

Mentor VIP AE AXI3/4 User Guide, V10.2b 607
September 2013
Chapter 11
VHDL Tutorials
This chapter discusses how to use the Mentor Verification IP Altera Edition master and slave
BFMs to verify slave and master components, respectively.
In the Verifying a Slave DUT tutorial the slave is an on-chip RAM model that is verified using
a master BFM and test program.
In the Verifying a Master DUT tutorial the master issues simple write and read transactions that
are verified using a slave BFM and test program.
Following this top-level discussion of how you verify a master and a slave component using the
Mentor Verification IP Altera Edition is a brief example of how to run Qsys, the powerful
system integration tool in the Quartus II software. This procedure shows you how to use Qsys to
create a top-level DUT environment. For more details on this example, refer to
“Getting Started
with Qsys and the BFMs” on page 653.
Verifying a Slave DUT
A slave DUT component is connected to a master BFM at the signal-level. A master test
program, written at the transaction-level, generates stimulus via the master BFM to verify the
slave DUT.
Figure 11-1 illustrates a typical top-level testbench environment.
Figure 11-1. Slave DUT Top-level Testbench Environment
In this example the master test program also compares the written data with that read back from
the slave DUT, reporting the result of the comparison.
Program
Test
Master
BFM On-chip
RAM Slave
Master
Top-level File