SmartDV’s AVSBus (PMBus 1.3.1) Synthesizable Transactor is a fully featured Adaptive Voltage Scaling Bus model purpose-built for hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping environments requiring fast, accurate, and highly configurable AVSBus Master and Slave behavior during pre-silicon validation and software bring-up. Fully compliant with AVSBus v1.3 (PMBus Part III specification, revision 1.3.1), it delivers complete Master and Slave functionality in a single combined transactor, giving validation teams a drop-in synthesizable AVSBus model ready for rapid integration into emulation and prototyping flows for POL voltage regulator and adaptive voltage scaling system validation.
Designed for the speed and visibility demands of emulation and FPGA prototyping rather than ASIC tape-out, the transactor emphasizes fast bring-up, fine-grained controllability, and on-the-fly protocol checking over area or power optimization. It supports all AVSBus commands and data types, clock resynchronization, clock suspension and pausing, master alert generation, asynchronous slave alert via AVS_SData pull-low, back-to-back command support, user response frames, status response handling, timeout detection, and frame alignment, enabling validation teams to exercise corner-case AVSBus Master and Slave behavior that is difficult to reach with production RTL alone.
Built for fast compile times and efficient resource utilization on hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms, the transactor is fully synthesizable and platform-independent, deploying without modification across any major emulation or prototyping environment. Its combined Master and Slave architecture, rich set of configuration parameters controlling AVSBus functionality, and clean integration interface enable rapid deployment for early software bring-up and system-level validation of adaptive voltage scaling subsystems.
