IEC7816 Verification IP

IEC7816 VIP

IEC7816 Verification IP is a smart way to verify the SmartCard (IEC7816) component of a SOC or ASIC. The SmartDV's IEC7816 Verification IP is fully compliant with standard IEC7816 Specification IEC7816-3. It supports all frame types such as Character frame and Block frame. The IEC7816 VIP monitor acts as powerful protocol-checker, fully compliant with IEC7816 specification ISO/IEC7816. IEC7816 VIP includes an extensive test suite covering all possible scenarios. It can perform all protocol tests in a directed or a highly randomized fashion which adds the possibility to create most wide range of scenarios to verify the DUT effectively. This way it detects violation of protocol completely.

IEC7816 VIP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env

Features

Adherent to ISO/IEC 7816-3 Specification.
Complete IEC7816-3 Tx/Rx functionality.
Supports all functions for complete smart card sessions, including

Card activation and deactivation
Cold/warm reset
Answer to Reset (ATR) response reception
Data transfers to and from the card

Supports adjustable clock rate and bit (baud) rate.
Supports configurable automatic byte repetition.
Supports commonly used communication protocols

T=0 for asynchronous half-duplex character transmission, and
T=1 for asynchronous half-duplex block transmission

Supports Sleep mode and Clock stop mode.
Supports automatic convention detection.
Supports automatic voltage class selection.
Supports Configurable timing functions.

Smart card activation time
Guard time
Timeout timers

Supports all three resynchronization levels for the Interface device of the transmission protocol.

Retransmission of blocks
Use of S(RESYNCH request)
Warm reset or deactivation

Supports all three resynchronization levels for the Card of the transmission protocol.

Retransmission of blocks
Use of S(RESYNCH response)
Without action by the interface device, the card becomes unresponsive

Supports all types of error insertion and detection.

Character parity error(s)
Redundancy code error
Invalid PCB
Invalid LEN
Loss of synchronization
Failure to receive the relevant S(response) after having transmitted S(request)

Supports some common SmartCard device model
Supports both synchronous and asynchronous mode of communication
Supports both type of CRC poly

ISO/IEC 13239, or ISO/IEC 14443-3 type B, or ITU-T Rec. V.42
CRC-T1 as used by many ISO/IEC 7816-3 readers

Monitors, detects and notifies the testbench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, timing and protocol violations.
Supports constraints Randomization.
Status counters for various events on bus.
Callbacks in transmitter, receiver and monitor for user processing of data.
IEC7816 Verification IP comes with complete test suite to test every feature of IEC7816 specification.
Functional coverage for complete IEC7816 features.

Benefits

Rich set of configuration parameters to control the functionality.
Faster testbench development and more complete verification of IEC7816 designs.
Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of Tx and Rx.
Simplifies results analysis.
Runs in every major simulation environment.

IEC7816 Verification Env

SmartDV's IEC7816 Verification env contains following.

Complete source code of BFM and monitor.
Complete regression suite containing all the IEC7816 testcases.
Examples's showing how to connect various components, and usage of Tx,Rx and Monitor.
Detailed documentation of all class, task and function's used in verification env.
Documentation contains User's Guide and Release notes.

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