Avery Design Systems Announces NVMe 1.3 and NVMe-MI Verification IP Updates

Tewksbury, MA, 3 August 2017 -- Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification productivity solutions, today announced availability of updates to its NVMe VIP supporting NVMe 1.3 and support for new NVMe-Management Interface (NVMe-MI) over PCIe 4.0 or SMBus 3.0.

The NVMe VIP now supports the NVMe 1.3 standard including enhancements to models, protocol checking, and compliance testsuites.

NVMe 1.3 mandatory features and revisions

Identify Namespace return list of Namespace Identifiers
Get Log Page command change for Retain Asynchronous Event functionality
Globally Unique Updates
SGL Dword Simplification
Firmware Update Granularity
Namespace Optimal IO Boundary
Non-Operational Power State Permissive Mode
Data Transfer Direction for opcodes shall be valid
Reservations Changes
Operation Denied status code
Deallocated Value for Logical Block Data

NVMe 1.3 optional new features

Device Self-Test
Sanitize
Directives
Boot Partitions
Telemetry
Virtualization Enhancements
NVMe-MI Management Enhancements
Host Controlled Thermal Management
Timestamp
Emulated Controller Performance Enhancement

The NVMe host driver now supports the NVMe Management Interface (NVMe-MI) to communicate out-of-band with an NVMe NVM Subsystem Management Endpoint via PCI Express or SMBus/I2C over a simplified MCTP protocol. NVMe-MI supports a native PCIe in-line flow or SMBus adapter for out-of-bound communication via a SMBus 3.0 host model.

Discover devices that are present and learn capabilities of each device
Store data about the host environment enabling a Management Controller to query the data later
Health and temperature monitoring
Multiple Command Slots to prevent a long latency command from blocking monitoring operations
Processor and operating system agnostic
A standard format for VPD and defined mechanisms to read/write VPD contents
Preserves data at rest security

“Avery continues to demonstrate leadership in NVMe and PCIe VIP with support for the latest NVMe features,” said Chris Browy, vice president of sales/marketing at Avery. “Our customers can develop new products more confidently and quickly knowing a comprehensive SystemVerilog/UVM NVMe verification environment is available for the latest in NVMe developments targeting enterprise, client, and cloud.”

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