I have an OVM agent which needs to drive request xtxns to DUT. The DUT returns request_credit to the agent. After a while, the DUT returns a response xtxn for the previous request. I need to grab it in my monitor, and send a response credit back to the DUT from the agent.
In your opinion, what is a good way to structure this?
Option 1 : Request and response are done through two different OVM agents, each having their own driver/seqr/monitor. A virtual sequence (or some other method) communicates between them if at all needed (like, tracking outstanding responses, so that no more requests are sent etc)
Option 2. Have one agent, which has one monitor grabbing all request and response signals. There are two drivers (with corresponding sequencers). One driver drives response credit back, the other drives requests.
Option 3. Have one agent as above, one monitor, but only one driver. There are two sequencers for the resp_credit and req_xtxns. The drivers have virtual interface handles for both interfaces, and gets stuff from the two sequencers in parallel, and drives them on corresponding interfaces (using an extra analysis_port and a fork-join method within run_phase)