Efficient Verification Framework for

Audio/Video Interfaces
Noha Shaarawy, Mustafa Khairallah,
Amr Salah, Maged Ghoneima

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 Agenda
 Introduction
 Proposed Verification Framework.
 HDMI 2.0 Verification Environment.
 HDMI Transmitter & Receiver Verification Environment.
 Experimental Results.

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 Introduction

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 Verification Target
Verifying such interfaces is a big Challenge.

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 Verification Target
Verifying such interfaces is a big Challenge.

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 Verification Target
Verifying such interfaces is a big Challenge.

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 Verification Target
Verifying such interfaces is a big Challenge.

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Proposed Verification Framework

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 Proposed Verification Framework
VIP components is divided into six regions:
▪ Hot Plug
▪ Data
▪ Auxiliary Channel
▪ Control
▪ Video
▪ Streaming

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HDMI 2.0 Verification Environment
▪ HDMI 2.0 receiver and transmitter VIPs are developed
based on:

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HDMI 2.0 Verification Environment
▪ HDMI 2.0 receiver and transmitter VIPs are developed
based on:

FrameWork

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 HDMI 2.0 Source VIP

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HDMI 2.0 Source UVM Environment

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 HDMI 2.0 Sink VIP

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HDMI 2.0 Sink UVM Environment

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 Experimental Results
HDMI Transmitter coverage result HDMI Receiver coverage result
▪ 115 test cases. ▪ 90 test cases.
▪ Total coverage = 93.50% ▪ Total coverage = 89.50%

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 Experimental Results
The performance results for 10 frames sent to HDMI receiver.

Video Format CPU Time (in Seconds)

720*480 349
2560*1080 2305
4096*2160 (4K) 8908

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 Questions

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