Altera Mentor Verification IP Altera Edition AMBA AXI3/4TM - Manual (Page 68)

Mentor VIP AE AXI3/4 User Guide, V10.2b 50
SystemVerilog AXI3 and AXI4 Master BFMs
execute_transaction()
September 2013
AXI4 Example
// Declare a local variable to hold the transaction record.
axi4_transaction read_trans;
// Create a read transaction with start address of 0 and assign
// it to the local read_trans variable.
read_trans = bfm.create_read_transaction(0);
....
// Execute the read_trans transaction.
bfm.execute_transaction(read_trans);