Avery Design Systems announces eMMC and SD verification IP solutions

USA: Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification productivity solutions, announced the availability of its eMMC and SD verification IPs.

The addition of eMMC and SD/SDIO extends Avery’s portfolio of storage-related VIP which also includes Universal Flash Storage (UFS), SCSI Express (SOP/PQI), NVM Express, USB Attached SCSI (UASP), and SATA.

eMMC-Xactor supports eMMC 4.5.1 and draft 5.0 standards work by JEDEC targeting high performance embedded flash memory systems. SD-Xactor supports SD/SDIO 4.0 for high performance memory cards, systems, and IO peripherals.

eMMC-Xactor and SD-Xactor are complete verification solutions enabling design and verification engineers to quickly and extensively test the functionality of memory systems. The VIPs include:

* Host and device BFMs.
* Producer-consumer scoreboard.
* Compliance testsuite.
* Comprehensive protocol checks.
* Protocol analyzer tracker.
* Functional coverage model.

Models and compliance testsuites are developed in SystemVerilog and support UVM, OVM, and VMM environments.