{"id":12150,"date":"2016-04-07T08:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/verificationhorizons\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:37:15","slug":"no-to-know-vip-validated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/2016\/04\/07\/no-to-know-vip-validated\/","title":{"rendered":"No to Know VIP \u2013 Validated!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have talked about how one can go from \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/verificationhorizons\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/no-to-know-vip-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No to Know VIP<\/a>\u2019 in my 3 part series and how Questa VIP PCIe Starter Kits make a Verification engineer&#8217;s life easy.<\/p>\n<p>Xilinx\u00ae recently posted the \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VWnkg01rJEY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UltraScale PCIe PIPE Simulation with Mentor QVIP<\/a><\/strong>\u201d YouTube video that demonstrates how easy it is to hook Questa Verification IP to a Xilinx\u00ae PCIe IP.<\/p>\n<p>Some key take-aways from the video:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Generate a PCIe IP using the Xilinx Vivado\u00ae tool<\/li>\n<li>Download the starter kits from Mentor Supportnet<\/li>\n<li>Use the starter kit to plug in a UVM testbench for your PCIe<\/li>\n<li>This UVM testbench has scoreboarding and coverage enabled<\/li>\n<li>Ready to use sequences<\/li>\n<li>Plug &amp; Run the UVM simulation using PCIe QVIP starter Kit.<\/li>\n<li>Check the log for generated transactions e.g TLP packets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you take 10 minutes to check out the video. Bring up of a UVM environment for Xilinx\u00ae PCIe IP could not have been easier.<\/p>\n<p>Are you using Xilinx\u00ae PCIe IP in your project? If so, try out the PCIe starter kit and let me know how easy it is to get your UVM testbench up and running so you can spend your cycles on Verification.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to hearing your comments on the video and the PCIe starter kit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have talked about how one can go from \u2018No to Know VIP\u2019 in my 3 part series and how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[506,633,658,674,718,787,819,853],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-functional-verification","tag-pcie","tag-questa","tag-qvip","tag-simulation","tag-uvm","tag-verification","tag-xilinx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19817,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions\/19817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}