SmartDV’s SAS Verification IP is a comprehensive solution for verifying the Serial Attached SCSI point-to-point serial storage interconnect, the enterprise storage industry standard for connecting hard disk drives, solid-state drives, tape drives, and storage arrays to host bus adapters and RAID controllers. Fully compliant with SAS-4 (INCITS 534-2019) and SAS Protocol Layer SPL-5 (INCITS 554-2023), and backward compatible with SAS-3, SAS-2, and SAS-1, it supports complete verification of SAS Initiator and Target components across trained speeds from 1.5 Gbps through 22.5 Gbps, SSP, STP, and SMP protocol layers, expander device models, retimer device models, narrow and wide port configurations, SCSI, ATA, and management frame transactions, zone permission configuration, and the complete SAS physical, link, and transport layer state machine suite.
SmartDV’s SAS 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 comprehensive OOB sequence generation and checking, 8b/10b and 128b/130b encoding with FEC, SNW-3 phy capabilities, spread spectrum clocking, BMC encoding, interleaved SPL packet mode, complete SCSI command set, HDD model with LBA configuration, zone permission management, single and multi-bit error injection, built-in functional coverage, and a complete test suite, SmartDV’s SAS VIP enables verification teams to thoroughly validate SAS interface designs for enterprise HBAs, RAID controllers, SAS expanders, storage arrays, and server storage subsystem applications.
