P. Abinaya, M. Janani, S. Bala Jeevitha, S. Prema KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.
DOI : 01.0401/ijaict.2015.11.13
International Journal of Advanced Information and Communication Technology
Received On : March 16, 2018
Revised On : April 14, 2018
Accepted On : May 12, 2018
Published On : June 05, 2018
Volume 05, Issue 06
Pages : 865-869
Abstract
Functional verification of IP is an essential process in the chip/ System on Chip (SoC) design process, since this would ensure correct functionality of the IP with the SoC. This paper intends to highlight the functional verification process of an Ethernet IP core, with emphasis on the Ethernet MAC.The Ethernet IP has been adopted from OpenCores. The IP interfaces to an Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) compatible Physical layer interface (PHY) on one side and on the other it interfaces to the host system through a Wishbone bus (WB). The IP has a MAC control module, host interface and Media Independent Interface (MII). The design and verification environment are built using Verilog HDL, an industry standard Hardware Description Language (HDL). A PHY model is implemented to model the behavior of the PHY in the system. A host model is implemented with a Wishbone interface. A basic set of four tests have been developed. They are Unicast, Multicast, Broadcast and basic Transmit and Receive tests. Additional tests are being added to these basic tests to complete the verification of the IP.Open Source VerilogHDL simulator, iverilog, is used to perform this verification process.
Keywords
MAC, MII, HDL, PHY.
Cite this article
P. Abinaya, M. Janani, S. Bala Jeevitha, S. Prema, “Leach: Analysis of Wireless Sensor Network Protocol” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, pp.870-876, June 05, 2018.
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© 2018 P. Abinaya, M. Janani, S. Bala Jeevitha, S. Prema. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.