SmartDV’s PMBus Verification IP is a comprehensive solution for verifying the Power Management Bus, the open standard two-wire serial protocol for configuration, control, and real-time monitoring of power converters, voltage regulators, and power management ICs in servers, storage systems, data center infrastructure, and embedded power systems. Fully compliant with PMBus Specification Revision 1.5 and the underlying SMBus transport, it supports complete verification of PMBus Master and Slave components across all defined normal and extended command codes, zone write and read commands, group commands, all SMBus transaction types, Packet Error Checking, Alert generation and handling, fault management and reporting, re-synchronization, bus-accurate timing, and comprehensive error injection across all defined PMBus error conditions.
SmartDV’s PMBus VIP supports UVM, SystemVerilog, and Verilog, and integrates seamlessly into diverse verification environments. It is simulator-independent and compatible with all leading EDA simulators, providing flexibility across simulation platforms.
With master and slave arbitration and clock synchronization, glitch insertion and detection, programmable clock frequency, timeout detection and generation, read data comparison against expected results, built-in functional coverage, and a complete test suite, SmartDV’s PMBus VIP enables verification teams to thoroughly validate PMBus power management interface designs for server power supply units, point-of-load converters, voltage regulator modules, data center PDUs, and any digital power management system requiring standardized bus-based power control.
