Overview

Cadence's best-in-class Verification IP (VIP) for MIPI® CSI-2sm for IP, SoCs and, system-level design testing.

In production since 2008 on dozens of production designs.

Cadence provides a mature and comprehensive VIP for the CSI-2 protocol, which is part of the MIPI family. Incorporating the latest protocol updates, the Cadence® VIP for CSI-2 provides a complete bus functional model (BFM), integrated automatic protocol checks, and coverage model. Designed for easy integration in testbenches at IP, system-on-chip (SoC), and system levels, the VIP for CSI-2 helps you reduce time to test, accelerate verification closure, and ensure end-product quality. The VIP runs on all major simulators and supports SystemVerilog and e verification languages along with associated methodologies, including the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and Open Verification Methodology (OVM).

Supported specification: MIPI CSI2 v1.3, v2.0, v2.1, v3.0, v4.0, MIPI D-PHY v1.2, v2.1, v2.5, MIPI C-PHY v1.0, v1.2, v2.0, MIPI CSE v1.0, MIPI PAL/CSI2 v1.0, and MIPI A-PHY v1.0.

MIPI CSI-2 diagram

Product Highlights

  • Support testbench language interfaces for SystemVerilog, UVM, OVM, e, and SystemC
  • Generates constrained-random bus traffic with predefined error injection at CSI-2, D-PHY, C-PHY and A-PHY levels
  • Callbacks access at multiple TX and RX queue points for scoreboarding and data manipulation
  • Packet tracker creation for easy debugging
  • Dynamic activation to enable setting the VIP as active/passive during run time
  • Provides extensive coverage in e and SystemVerilog

Key Features

The following table describes key features from the specifications that are implemented in the VIP:

Feature Name

Description

PHY Interfaces
  • Supports D-PHY v2.5, C-PHY v2.0 and A-PHY v1.0 with both PHY interfaces: Serial (Dpdn/ABC/Uplink/downlink) and Parallel (PPI/APPI)

PPI Data Bus Width
  • Supports 16- and 32-bit PPI data bus width over C-PHYsm
  • Supports 8-, 16-, and 32-bit PPI data bus width over D-PHYsm
  • Supports 16-, 32-, and 64-bit APPI data bus width over A-PHYsm

Data Lanes
  • Supports one to eight PHY data lanes for DPHY and CPHY

Data Types
  • RGB → RGB444, RGB555, RGB565, RGB666, RGB888
  • RAW → RAW6, RAW7, RAW8, RAW10, RAW12, RAW14, RAW16, RAW20, RAW24, RAW28
  • YUV → YUV420 8/10-bit, legacy YUV420 8-bit, YUV420 8-bit CSPS, YUV420 10-bit CSPS
  • Generic Long Packet Data Types 1 to 4, user-defined format 1 to 8, Blanking Data, Null Packet, and Embedded Data
  • FS-FE, LS-LE, and all Generic Short Packet Codes (1 to 8)

Clock
  • Supports continuous and non-continuous TxWordClkHS and RxWordClkHS clock operation

Interleaving
  • Supports virtual channel and data type interleaving

Virtual Channel Extension
  • Supports up to 32 virtual channels over C-PHY and 16 virtual channels over D-PHY

Ultra-Low Power Mode (ULPM)
  • Supports Ultra-Low-Power mode (ULPM) on clock and data lanes

Triggers
  • Supports all 4 trigger commands, including low-power data after trigger transmission and low-power data pause

Pixel Layer
  • Supports pixel layer for RGB, RAW, and YUV422 data types
  • Supports pixel-to-byte packing

Scrambling
  • Supports lane-based data payload scrambling
  • Supports LFSR initialization for both D-PHY and C-PHY
  • Supports multiple sync word types insertion for C-PHY scrambling LFSR initialization

Latency Reduction Transport Efficiency (LRTE)
  • Supports merging multiple packets from the same frame in a single HS burst with protocol generated and consumed fillers and spacers over C-PHY and D-PHY

Efficient Packet Delimiter (EPD)
  • Supports PHY-generated and -consumed PDQ for both C-PHY and D-PHY
  • PDQ for D-PHY is HS-IDLE, and for C-PHY is sync words, when merging multiple packets with LRTE

Alternate Calibration Sequence for D-PHY
  • Supports PRBS9 generation of D-PHY Alternate Calibration Sequence includes updates of D-PHY v2.1 errata01

Frame Synchronization Packets
  • Supports increment of frame number by 1 or 2 for every FS Packet

Spacer Byte Generation
  • Supports to redefine spacers as a minimum value, as defined in the CSI2 v2.1 specification

End of Transmission packet (EoTp)
  • Supports a short packet after the last packet to indicate end of HS burst transmission

Spacers Generation
  • Supports spacers in the packet without PDQ(Packet Delimiter Quick) for CPHY and DPHY EPD option 1 and variable-length spacers for DPHY EPD option 2

Smart Region of Interest
  • Supports SEDP Packet and SROI packet option 1 and 2

Unified Serial Link
  • Supports SNS- and APP-initiated USL transactions in HS/LPDT mode and transport integrity checks
  • Supports USL BTA switch registers
  • Supports switching to soft standby and streaming mode
  • Supports Dynamic clock control

CSI-2 Over DPHY v2.5
  • ALP Mode - Support of Data transmission and all ALP control bursts
  • Fast Lane BTA - Burst Turn Around in ALP Mode
  • Clock Lane ULPS in ALP mode

CSI-2 Over CPHY v2.0
  • Fast Lane BTA - Burst Turn Around in ALP Mode

CSI2 over A-PHY v1.0
  • Supports CSI2 packet transfer over A-PHY serial and APPI interface

Camera Service Extension (CSE)
  • Supports SEP format over A/D/C-PHY

Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL)
  • Supports all modes of TU function
  • Supports Multiple short packets in single A-Packet

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