add TVIP-AXI

[taichi-ishitani]

Hi,

This PR is to add UVM based AMBA AXI4 VIP which I'm developing.
https://github.com/taichi-ishitani/tvip-axi

[umarcor]

I'm not sure about adding this as an isolated item. Coherently with the discussion in #201, both UVM and AXI4 are standards/specifications. Therefore, there are many different implementations of VIP or BFMs for them. I don't think it's sensible to overflow the items with several almost identical solutions. Instead, I'd like to have them listed together.

Currently, there are no items for UVM or AXI4. Therefore, I would suggest adding one or both of them, and including TVIP-AXI in the references section. See, for instance, https://hdl.github.io/awesome/items/ghdl/.

As a complement, you might want to have TVIP-AXI added to https://www.librecores.org/.

[taichi-ishitani]

Hi @umarcor ,

Thanks for your comment!

I'd like to have them listed together.

OK, I understand. How should we list meta information such as author name, license, etc.?
Like following?

• TVIP-AXI
  • Author
    • Taichi Ishitani
  • Link
    • https://github.com/taichi-ishitani/tvip-axi
  • License
    • Apache License 2.0
• foo-vip
  • Author
  • John Smith
• Link
  • https://exmaple.com
• License
  • MIT

[umarcor]

The main idea of having a series of references listed inside the body of an item such as UVM or AXI, is not to handle/track all the metadata of those references. Therefore, we don't need details such as the license, or the author name. I would just link to the repo/resource.

Alternatively, I think it would be nice to use a format similar to an academic citation, which would contain name/title, authors, year and URL in a single line per reference. I'd like to handle both papers and repos through bibtex (#185). This would provide a balance, as it would make more info machine-readable while showing limited content in the frontend. However, until that feature is implemented, it's ok to write it manually.

For having all the metadata about HDL libraries/cores, I strongly suggest using librecores. That's specific for searching/filtering reusable HDL code. This repo is for gathering tools in general. Hence, libraries for specific HDL's are a subset.

[taichi-ishitani]

Do you prefer notation like below? Is it correct?

* [TVIP-AXI][1]

[1]: https://github.com/taichi-ishitani/tvip-axi "Taichi Ishitani, TVIP-AXI"

I don't know BibTex so I may misunderstand what you want to say. If yes, I'd like you to show an sample format.

[umarcor]

The idea of bibtex/biblatex is to have a file with all the metadata and then select an specific style from printing it. Hence, there is not single bibtex style. I am used to the IEEE format: https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/IEEE-Reference-Guide.pdf. In this case, I guess it would fall into "Manual (Online)". I'd propose the following:

• T. Ishitani. TVIP-AXI: AMBA AXI VIP. taichi-ishitani/tvip-axi

[taichi-ishitani]

Thank you for your feedback!

T. Ishitani. TVIP-AXI: AMBA AXI VIP. taichi-ishitani/tvip-axi

OK, I understand. I'm closing this PR and create a list of VIP/BFM for AMBA.