VHDL Whisbone Test Bench

For the development of IP cores a test bench is needed. The given project provides a test bench written in VHDL which controls the stimulus,the verifier and the DUT via a common wishbone bus function model. The bfm acts like a virtual CPU performing read and write accesses to the control wishbone bus.

tc-files(uses wb_bfm_procedures) => wishbone_bus ->
-> stimulator (writes or generates DUT inputs)
-> verifier (reads or checks DUT outptus)
-> DUT (configures DUT via WB accesses)


In contrast to Ken Campbells "The VHDL Test Bench"(https://opencores.org/project/vhld_tb) we do not use an interpreter for the bfm functions. We use plain VHDL which requires VHDL knowledge for test definitions, but also provides more flexibility.

Testbench architecture:


Example test flow programming (reads and writes via wb):