Testplan

Testpoints

Stage V1 Testpoints

smoke

Test: pattgen_smoke

Smoke test for pattgen ip in which dut is randomly programmed to generate random patterns on output channels.

Stimulus:

  • Program the configuration registers of the output channels
  • Randomly activate the output channels
  • Re-program the configuration registers of the output channels once completion interrupts are asserted

Checking:

  • Check divided clock rate for the active channels matching with the values of pre-divider registers
  • Check generated pattern matching on the active channels matching with the values of pattern data registers
  • Check completion interrupts are asserted once a pattern is completely generated on the active channels

csr_hw_reset

Test: pattgen_csr_hw_reset

Verify the reset values as indicated in the RAL specification.

  • Write all CSRs with a random value.
  • Apply reset to the DUT as well as the RAL model.
  • Read each CSR and compare it against the reset value. it is mandatory to replicate this test for each reset that affects all or a subset of the CSRs.
  • It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.
  • Shuffle the list of CSRs first to remove the effect of ordering.

csr_rw

Test: pattgen_csr_rw

Verify accessibility of CSRs as indicated in the RAL specification.

  • Loop through each CSR to write it with a random value.
  • Read the CSR back and check for correctness while adhering to its access policies.
  • It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.
  • Shuffle the list of CSRs first to remove the effect of ordering.

csr_bit_bash

Test: pattgen_csr_bit_bash

Verify no aliasing within individual bits of a CSR.

  • Walk a 1 through each CSR by flipping 1 bit at a time.
  • Read the CSR back and check for correctness while adhering to its access policies.
  • This verify that writing a specific bit within the CSR did not affect any of the other bits.
  • It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.
  • Shuffle the list of CSRs first to remove the effect of ordering.

csr_aliasing

Test: pattgen_csr_aliasing

Verify no aliasing within the CSR address space.

  • Loop through each CSR to write it with a random value
  • Shuffle and read ALL CSRs back.
  • All CSRs except for the one that was written in this iteration should read back the previous value.
  • The CSR that was written in this iteration is checked for correctness while adhering to its access policies.
  • It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.
  • Shuffle the list of CSRs first to remove the effect of ordering.

csr_mem_rw_with_rand_reset

Test: pattgen_csr_mem_rw_with_rand_reset

Verify random reset during CSR/memory access.

  • Run csr_rw sequence to randomly access CSRs
  • If memory exists, run mem_partial_access in parallel with csr_rw
  • Randomly issue reset and then use hw_reset sequence to check all CSRs are reset to default value
  • It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.

regwen_csr_and_corresponding_lockable_csr

Tests:

  • pattgen_csr_rw
  • pattgen_csr_aliasing

Verify regwen CSR and its corresponding lockable CSRs.

  • Randomly access all CSRs
  • Test when regwen CSR is set, its corresponding lockable CSRs become read-only registers

Note:

  • If regwen CSR is HW read-only, this feature can be fully tested by common CSR tests - csr_rw and csr_aliasing.
  • If regwen CSR is HW updated, a separate test should be created to test it.

This is only applicable if the block contains regwen and locakable CSRs.

Stage V2 Testpoints

perf

Test: pattgen_perf

Checking ip operation at min/max bandwidth

Stimulus:

  • Program the pre-divider registers to high/low values (slow/fast data rate)
  • Program the pattern data registers, the pattern length per output, and repeat counter registers to high/low values
  • Start and stop channels quickly
  • Clear interrupts quickly Checking:
  • Ensure patterns are correctly generated
  • Ensure interrupts are robust asserted and cleared (e.g. at the high data rate)

cnt_rollover

Test: cnt_rollover

Checking ip operation with random counter values

Stimulus:

  • Program the pre-divider and size registers to unconstraint random values
  • Program the clk_cnt, bit_cnt and rep_cnt to values less than but close to predivider and size registers, so that counting would take a reasonable number of clock cycles
  • include programming for corner cases repeat programming a random number of times
  • Start and stop channels quickly
  • Clear interrupts quickly

Checking:

  • Include functional cover point that rollover value is reached and counter is re-enabled:
  • Ensure patterns are correctly generated
  • Ensure interrupts are robust asserted and cleared (e.g. at the high data rate)

error

Test: pattgen_error

Reset then re-start the output channel on the fly.

Stimulus:

  • Programm the configuration registers of the output channels
  • Randomly re-enable the in progress output channels
  • Re-program the configuration registers of the output channels

Checking:

  • Ensure patterns are dropped when re-enabled
  • Ensure the output channels get back normal after re-enable

stress_all

Test: pattgen_stress_all

Stress_all test is a random mix of all the test above except csr tests.

alert_test

Test: pattgen_alert_test

Verify common alert_test CSR that allows SW to mock-inject alert requests.

  • Enable a random set of alert requests by writing random value to alert_test CSR.
  • Check each alert_tx.alert_p pin to verify that only the requested alerts are triggered.
  • During alert_handshakes, write alert_test CSR again to verify that: If alert_test writes to current ongoing alert handshake, the alert_test request will be ignored. If alert_test writes to current idle alert handshake, a new alert_handshake should be triggered.
  • Wait for the alert handshakes to finish and verify alert_tx.alert_p pins all sets back to 0.
  • Repeat the above steps a bunch of times.

intr_test

Test: pattgen_intr_test

Verify common intr_test CSRs that allows SW to mock-inject interrupts.

  • Enable a random set of interrupts by writing random value(s) to intr_enable CSR(s).
  • Randomly “turn on” interrupts by writing random value(s) to intr_test CSR(s).
  • Read all intr_state CSR(s) back to verify that it reflects the same value as what was written to the corresponding intr_test CSR.
  • Check the cfg.intr_vif pins to verify that only the interrupts that were enabled and turned on are set.
  • Clear a random set of interrupts by writing a randomly value to intr_state CSR(s).
  • Repeat the above steps a bunch of times.

tl_d_oob_addr_access

Test: pattgen_tl_errors

Access out of bounds address and verify correctness of response / behavior

tl_d_illegal_access

Test: pattgen_tl_errors

Drive unsupported requests via TL interface and verify correctness of response / behavior. Below error cases are tested bases on the TLUL spec

  • TL-UL protocol error cases
    • invalid opcode
    • some mask bits not set when opcode is PutFullData
    • mask does not match the transfer size, e.g. a_address = 0x00, a_size = 0, a_mask = 'b0010
    • mask and address misaligned, e.g. a_address = 0x01, a_mask = 'b0001
    • address and size aren’t aligned, e.g. a_address = 0x01, a_size != 0
    • size is greater than 2
  • OpenTitan defined error cases
    • access unmapped address, expect d_error = 1
    • write a CSR with unaligned address, e.g. a_address[1:0] != 0
    • write a CSR less than its width, e.g. when CSR is 2 bytes wide, only write 1 byte
    • write a memory with a_mask != '1 when it doesn’t support partial accesses
    • read a WO (write-only) memory
    • write a RO (read-only) memory
    • write with instr_type = True

tl_d_outstanding_access

Tests:

  • pattgen_csr_hw_reset
  • pattgen_csr_rw
  • pattgen_csr_aliasing
  • pattgen_same_csr_outstanding

Drive back-to-back requests without waiting for response to ensure there is one transaction outstanding within the TL device. Also, verify one outstanding when back- to-back accesses are made to the same address.

tl_d_partial_access

Tests:

  • pattgen_csr_hw_reset
  • pattgen_csr_rw
  • pattgen_csr_aliasing
  • pattgen_same_csr_outstanding

Access CSR with one or more bytes of data. For read, expect to return all word value of the CSR. For write, enabling bytes should cover all CSR valid fields.

Stage V2S Testpoints

tl_intg_err

Tests:

  • pattgen_tl_intg_err
  • pattgen_sec_cm

Verify that the data integrity check violation generates an alert.

  • Randomly inject errors on the control, data, or the ECC bits during CSR accesses. Verify that triggers the correct fatal alert.
  • Inject a fault at the onehot check in u_reg.u_prim_reg_we_check and verify the corresponding fatal alert occurs

sec_cm_bus_integrity

Test: pattgen_tl_intg_err

Verify the countermeasure(s) BUS.INTEGRITY.

Stage V3 Testpoints

stress_all_with_rand_reset

Test: pattgen_stress_all_with_rand_reset

This test runs 3 parallel threads - stress_all, tl_errors and random reset. After reset is asserted, the test will read and check all valid CSR registers.

Covergroups

ctrl_cg

Covers that all valid enable and polarity settings for the Pattgen control register have been tested. Individual enable and polarity settings that will be covered include:

  • Enable pattern generator functionality for Channel 0 (ENABLE_CH0)
  • Enable pattern generator functionality for Channel 1 (ENABLE_CH1)
  • Clock (pcl) polarity for Channel 0 (POLARITY_CH0)
  • Clock (pcl) polarity for Channel 1 (POLARITY_CH1) All valid combinations of the above will also be crossed.

inter_cg

intr_cg is defined in cip_base_env_cov and referenced in pattgen_scoreboard

pattern_data_ch0_0_cg

Covers various data_0 values of the channel0 seed pattern ranges, to ensure that Pattgen can operate successfully on different pattern lengths. we will cover that an acceptable distribution of lengths has been seen, and specifically cover corner cases. The covergroup takes data from TL_UL scoreboard input

pattern_data_ch0_1_cg

Similar to pattern_data_ch0_0_cg, except using data_1 values

pattern_data_ch1_0_cg

Similar to pattern_data_ch0_0_cg.

pattern_data_ch1_1_cg

Similar to pattern_data_ch0_1_cg.

pattern_len_ch0_cg

Covers various Lengths of the channel0 seed pattern ranges, to ensure that Pattgen can operate successfully on different pattern lengths. we will cover that an acceptable distribution of lengths has been seen, and specifically cover some corner cases.

pattern_len_ch1_cg

Similar to channel 0.

pattern_prediv_ch0_cg

Covers various numbers of clock divide ratios of the channel0, to ensure that Pattgen can operate successfully on different clock divide ratios. we will cover that an acceptable distribution of lengths has been seen, and specifically cover corner cases.

pattern_prediv_ch1_cg

Similar to channel 0.

pattern_reps_ch0_cg

Covers various numbers of channel repetitions of the channel0, to ensure that Pattgen can operate successfully on different pattern lengths. we will cover that an acceptable distribution of lengths has been seen, and specifically cover all corner cases.

pattern_reps_ch1_cg

Similar to channel 0.

pattgen_ch0_cnt_reset_cg

Covers that ch0 counter values resets to zero when it reaches the assigned value. It includes:

  • Clock divide counter value
  • Length counter value
  • Repetition counter value All valid combinations of the above will also be crossed.

pattgen_ch1_cnt_reset_cg

Covers that ch1 counter values resets to zero when it reaches the assigned value. It includes:

  • Clock divide counter value
  • Length counter value
  • Repetition counter value All valid combinations of the above will also be crossed.

pattgen_counters_max_values_cg

Covers the initial and maximum counter values of the following:

  • Initial and maximum values of clock divide counter
  • Initial and maximum values of length counter
  • Initial and maximum values of repetition counter All valid combinations of the above will also be crossed.

pattgen_op_cg

Covers the ch0 pattern generation complete interrupt and event done. Covers the ch1 pattern generation complete interrupt and event done.

program_while_busy_cg

Program the DUT while pattern is being produced to insure current pattern is not being corrupt.

regwen_val_when_new_value_written_cg

Cover each lockable reg field with these 2 cases:

  • When regwen = 1, a different value is written to the lockable CSR field, and a read occurs after that.
  • When regwen = 0, a different value is written to the lockable CSR field, and a read occurs after that.

This is only applicable if the block contains regwen and locakable CSRs.

tl_errors_cg

Cover the following error cases on TL-UL bus:

  • TL-UL protocol error cases.
  • OpenTitan defined error cases, refer to testpoint tl_d_illegal_access.

tl_intg_err_cg

Cover all kinds of integrity errors (command, data or both) and cover number of error bits on each integrity check.

Cover the kinds of integrity errors with byte enabled write on memory if applicable: Some memories store the integrity values. When there is a subword write, design re-calculate the integrity with full word data and update integrity in the memory. This coverage ensures that memory byte write has been issued and the related design logic has been verfied.