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Advanced PCIe Protocol and Verification

Ordering, AER, power, virtualization, and verification architecture.

A rigorous advanced course on deep PCIe routing, transaction ordering, flow-control behavior, error handling, power management, virtualization, and verification architecture. The curriculum is grounded in the curated technical references and preserves their technical depth, code, diagrams, decision rules, and failure analysis. Every lesson adds objectives, an applied lab, review questions, and concrete completion evidence. The course closes with a substantial capstone: Design a PCIe verification plan and executable checker architecture for an endpoint with DMA, AER, power management, and multiple outstanding requests.

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What you will learn

Leave with a working mental model.

  1. 01 Analyze advanced TLP fields, routing modes, ordering interactions, and credit pressure
  2. 02 Reason about AER, completion failures, replay, and recovery
  3. 03 Explain ASPM, link power states, extended capabilities, and SR-IOV
  4. 04 Design scoreboards, assertions, coverage, and fault injection for PCIe

Before you begin

Prerequisites

  • PCIe transaction and data-link fundamentals
  • Comfort decoding TLPs
  • Verification or protocol-debug experience

Curriculum

Course contents

9 modules · 16 lessons

01 Module 1: TLP Headers: Every Field, Every Type 1 lesson
  1. 01 TLP Structure — Header Field Reference Preview
02 Module 2: Addressing, Routing, and Switches 1 lesson
  1. 01 PCIe Addressing and Routing Preview
03 Module 3: Flow Control: Depth 1 lesson
  1. 01 PCIe Flow Control
04 Module 4: Ordering Rules: Deep Analysis 1 lesson
  1. 01 PCIe Ordering Rules
05 Module 5: Error Taxonomy and AER 1 lesson
  1. 01 PCIe Error Handling
06 Module 6: Link States and ASPM 1 lesson
  1. 01 PCIe Power Management
07 Module 7: Extended Capabilities and SR-IOV 3 lessons
  1. 01 PCIe Configuration Space
  2. 02 PCIe Enumeration
  3. 03 PCIe BAR Sizing and Mapping
08 Module 8: PCIe Verification Architecture 5 lessons
  1. 01 PCIe Verification Overview
  2. 02 PCIe Physical Layer
  3. 03 PCIe Generations — Gen1 through Gen6
  4. 04 PCIe Data Link Layer
  5. 05 PCIe Completions
09 Module 9: Capstone Studio 2 lessons
  1. 01 Capstone Brief and Architecture
  2. 02 Validation, Review, and Definition of Done