OpenTitan Documentation

RV_TIMER random test performs following steps for number of iterations

• Program zero to CTRL.active* Register(deactivate timer)
• Program random legal values in CFG*, TIMER_V_, COMPARE_, INTR_ENABLE*
• Program one to CTRL.active* (activate timer)
• Wait for number of cycles to have mTime>= mTimeCmp
• Check Interrupt state register and Interrupt signal (scoreboard logic)

Verify the reset values as indicated in the RAL specification.

• Write all CSRs with a random value.
• Apply reset to the DUT as well as the RAL model.
• Read each CSR and compare it against the reset value. it is mandatory to replicate this test for each reset that affects all or a subset of the CSRs.
• It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.
• Shuffle the list of CSRs first to remove the effect of ordering.

Verify accessibility of CSRs as indicated in the RAL specification.

• Loop through each CSR to write it with a random value.
• Read the CSR back and check for correctness while adhering to its access policies.
• It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.
• Shuffle the list of CSRs first to remove the effect of ordering.

Verify no aliasing within individual bits of a CSR.

• Walk a 1 through each CSR by flipping 1 bit at a time.
• Read the CSR back and check for correctness while adhering to its access policies.
• This verify that writing a specific bit within the CSR did not affect any of the other bits.
• It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.
• Shuffle the list of CSRs first to remove the effect of ordering.

Verify no aliasing within the CSR address space.

• Loop through each CSR to write it with a random value
• Shuffle and read ALL CSRs back.
• All CSRs except for the one that was written in this iteration should read back the previous value.
• The CSR that was written in this iteration is checked for correctness while adhering to its access policies.
• It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.
• Shuffle the list of CSRs first to remove the effect of ordering.

Verify random reset during CSR/memory access.

• Run csr_rw sequence to randomly access CSRs
• If memory exists, run mem_partial_access in parallel with csr_rw
• Randomly issue reset and then use hw_reset sequence to check all CSRs are reset to default value
• It is mandatory to run this test for all available interfaces the CSRs are accessible from.

Verify regwen CSR and its corresponding lockable CSRs.

• Randomly access all CSRs
• Test when regwen CSR is set, its corresponding lockable CSRs become read-only registers

Note:

• If regwen CSR is HW read-only, this feature can be fully tested by common CSR tests - csr_rw and csr_aliasing.
• If regwen CSR is HW updated, a separate test should be created to test it.

This is only applicable if the block contains regwen and locakable CSRs.

This test is to exercise on the fly reset(timer is active)

• Assert reset randomly in the middle of random test steps
• Scoreboard check for all register go back to reset value

This test to verify no activity in mTime, Interrupt Status, Interrupt signal, When all timers are deactive (ctrl.active = 0).

• Program 1 in interrupt enable and 0 in control register and random value for rest of the registers
• Scoreboard check for no activity and no interrupt whatever is setting

This test will verify update timer configuration on running timer.

• Program timer.Active to zero
• Program random values in interrrupt enable, prescaler, step, mtime and mtime cmp
• After some clocks update timer config values
• Check for interrupt as per new config set

This test will update timer value and compare value just before timer is going to expire (multiple times) and verify no interrupt is asserted

• Program timer.Active to zero
• Program random values in interrrupt enable, prescaler, step, mtime and mtime cmp
• Update timer config values just before timer is about to expire
• Check for no interrupt set

Do combinations of multiple of above scenarios to get multiple interrupts asserted at the same time. Scoreboard should be robust enough to deal with all scenarios.

Verify common intr_test CSRs that allows SW to mock-inject interrupts.

• Enable a random set of interrupts by writing random value(s) to intr_enable CSR(s).
• Randomly "turn on" interrupts by writing random value(s) to intr_test CSR(s).
• Read all intr_state CSR(s) back to verify that it reflects the same value as what was written to the corresponding intr_test CSR.
• Check the cfg.intr_vif pins to verify that only the interrupts that were enabled and turned on are set.
• Clear a random set of interrupts by writing a randomly value to intr_state CSR(s).
• Repeat the above steps a bunch of times.

Access out of bounds address and verify correctness of response / behavior

Drive unsupported requests via TL interface and verify correctness of response / behavior. Below error cases are tested bases on the TLUL spec

• TL-UL protocol error cases
  • invalid opcode
  • some mask bits not set when opcode is PutFullData
  • mask does not match the transfer size, e.g. a_address = 0x00, a_size = 0, a_mask = 'b0010
  • mask and address misaligned, e.g. a_address = 0x01, a_mask = 'b0001
  • address and size aren't aligned, e.g. a_address = 0x01, a_size != 0
  • size is greater than 2
• OpenTitan defined error cases
  • access unmapped address, expect d_error = 1 when devmode_i == 1
  • write a CSR with unaligned address, e.g. a_address[1:0] != 0
  • write a CSR less than its width, e.g. when CSR is 2 bytes wide, only write 1 byte
  • write a memory with a_mask != '1 when it doesn't support partial accesses
  • read a WO (write-only) memory
  • write a RO (read-only) memory
  • write with instr_type = True

Drive back-to-back requests without waiting for response to ensure there is one transaction outstanding within the TL device. Also, verify one outstanding when back- to-back accesses are made to the same address.

Access CSR with one or more bytes of data. For read, expect to return all word value of the CSR. For write, enabling bytes should cover all CSR valid fields.

Verify that the data integrity check violation generates an alert.

• Randomly inject errors on the control, data, or the ECC bits during CSR accesses. Verify that triggers the correct fatal alert.
• Inject a fault at the onehot check in u_reg.u_prim_reg_we_check and verify the corresponding fatal alert occurs

Verify the countermeasure(s) BUS.INTEGRITY.

This test runs 3 parallel threads - stress_all, tl_errors and random reset. After reset is asserted, the test will read and check all valid CSR registers.

Cover each lockable reg field with these 2 cases:

• When regwen = 1, a different value is written to the lockable CSR field, and a read occurs after that.
• When regwen = 0, a different value is written to the lockable CSR field, and a read occurs after that.

This is only applicable if the block contains regwen and locakable CSRs.

Cover the following error cases on TL-UL bus:

• TL-UL protocol error cases.
• OpenTitan defined error cases, refer to testpoint tl_d_illegal_access.

Cover all kinds of integrity errors (command, data or both) and cover number of error bits on each integrity check.

Cover the kinds of integrity errors with byte enabled write on memory if applicable: Some memories store the integrity values. When there is a subword write, design re-calculate the integrity with full word data and update integrity in the memory. This coverage ensures that memory byte write has been issued and the related design logic has been verfied.