Innovative high speed serial controller testing

    公开(公告)号:US10664433B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-26

    申请号:US15199323

    申请日:2016-06-30

    Abstract: In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing SoC coverage through virtual devices in PCIe and DMI controllers. According to one embodiment there is a functional semiconductor device, having therein a serial Input/Output interface (serial IO interface); a device fabric to carry transactions between a plurality of components of the functional semiconductor device; virtualized device logic embedded within the serial IO interface; a transaction originator to originate a shuttle transaction and to issue the shuttle transaction onto the device fabric directed toward the serial IO interface; in which the shuttle transaction includes a shuttle header and a shuttle payload having embedded therein one or more passenger transactions for issuance onto the device fabric; in which the virtualized device logic is to receive the shuttle transaction at the serial IO interface via the device fabric; in which the virtualized device logic is to strip the shuttle header from the shuttle transaction to expose the one or more passenger transactions; and in which the virtualized device logic is to issue the one or more passenger transactions onto the device fabric. Other related embodiments are disclosed.

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