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♦SPI-4.2 bus traffic that caused the SPI-4.2 Lite sink FIFO to be constantly almost full

♦Backend data traffic that caused the SPI-4.2 Lite source FIFO to be constantly almost full

♦SPI-4.2 bus traffic that caused the sink FIFO to overflow

♦Backend data traffic that caused the source FIFO to overflow

•Verification of invalid data

♦SPI-4.2 bus traffic that contained incorrect DIP-4 values

♦SPI-4.2 status traffic that contained incorrect DIP-2 values

♦SPI-4.2 status traffic that indicated that the receiving end of the SPI-4.2 Lite source block was out of frame

♦SPI-4.2 bus traffic that violated SOP spacing and had incorrect control word formats

♦SPI-4.2 bus traffic that contained data bursts that were not preceded by payload control words

♦SPI-4.2 bus traffic that terminated on non-credit boundaries with no EOP.

♦SPI-4.2 bus traffic that contained reserved control words

♦Backend data traffic that contained no EOP with non-zero MODs.

The behavior of the core was fully verified for a range of core configurations. It was also fully verified for the following range of clock frequencies.

♦SPI-4.2 bus clock: 100 MHz to 275 MHz

♦SrcFFClk and SnkFFClk: 50 MHz to 275 MHz

♦SnkStatClk and SrcStatClk: 20 MHz to 100 MHz

♦SrcCalClk and SnkCalClk: 20 MHz to 100 MHz

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