Good Afternoon,
I have a generic question regarding how one goes about interfacing with a DUT given a non-standard bus/interface.
Say for example I have an extremely simple DUT that uses a bus general reads and writes, lets call it DeviceBus, as well as two single bit wide PRBS_out and PRBS_in ports that are not a part of the DeviceBus protocol.
In this design PRBS_in is connected to PRBS_out, and I want some logic that insert errors into the bit-stream in the testbench.
From what I have read and understood about OSVVM, the test flow (in a simplified sense) is as follows:
1) the test_control architectures are where the reads and writes and test stimulus are generated.
2) the read/write commands are communicated using a MIT record (in this case the AddressBusRecType).
3) the VC translates the MIT record to whatever interface the DUT uses (in this case DeviceBus).
If I have understood that correctly, the only code that isn’t “structural” and that stimulates the DUT are the test_control architectures. In the case of my simple design, where where would I send the control signal for the PRBS error insertion…
Would I create a specific VC and record type to pass PRBS_in/out up to the test_control and have my test logic there.
Or maybe forego the new VC/record and just hook them straight up to the test_control and do all changes there.
I could easily do the latter and run my test successfully but we are trying to leverage OSVVM to standardize testing methodology and so I was wondering how I would approach such a relatively simple issue within the conventional OSVVM architecture. I guess my question boils down to, how to deal with simple signals that are not part of a bigger bus. Do they just get passed to the test_control unit and not have VCs?
Sorry if the post isn’t clear or if I am missing something obvious.
Thanks,
Michael
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