If you are trying to model out a bidirectional mux, the tranif primitives might be more appropriate to use. With usage of tranif primitives, you can have more control over the connection between two wires.
Where x and y are wires that need to be connected, c0 and c1 are control signals.
In SV testbench it can be useful to connect a VIP interface signal to a GPIOx DUT pin, only when a certain interface is selected;otherwise you want that GPIOx pin to be on a pull-down or pull-up.
If we have an interface instance:
And a DUT instance:
We want to assign to a gpiox pin a signal mosi. We do not want that signal to be assigned during the entire simulation, but only during some trigger event (for desired vip_en and specific protocol)
The trigger event for example could look like this:
So, instead of the classic assignment we can use tranif1 primitive in this example:
This will always “look over” protocol_en signal and it will only connect dut.gpiox_pad and example_if.mosi when protocol_en is set to 1.
If we use tranif0 instead of tranif1, the interface signal and dut pin will be connected when protocol_en is set to 0.
