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

Tewksbury, MA, Aug. 03, 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."

See Avery Design Systems at Flash Memory Summit (Booth #718), August 8-10, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.