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Check alignment of Ibex bus interface with "OBI" bus standard #758

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The OpenHW group, which continues the development of the ETH/PULP RISCY core as CV32E40P, has published a more complete description of the bus interface that also Ibex uses at https://github.com/openhwgroup/core-v-docs/blob/master/cores/cv32e40p/OBI-v1.0.pdf (no source code or HTML version is available AFAIK). We should check if our interface matches their description, and document compatibility or divergence as needed (at least the reset signal is named differently from what I've seen on a first look).

We also should add a protocol checker to our code base to ensure that we stay compliant with it.

@Silabs-ArjanB do you have a protocol checker in your code base (e.g. something like the one we have in OpenTitan for TL-UL at https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan/blob/master/hw/ip/tlul/rtl/tlul_assert.sv (docs), or do you have plans for such a module? It would be good if we can share the development effort for such a module.

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