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Parallel Bus Device Protocols - Arm Bus: Lesson - 23

The document discusses ARM buses for connecting devices in an embedded system. It describes the AMBA-AHB bus which connects high-speed memory and the AMBA-APB bus which connects low-speed peripherals. An AMBA-APB bridge allows the ARM processor to communicate with both buses, connecting the high-speed AHB bus to external devices through the lower speed APB bus. This bridge integrates the two buses onto a single microcontroller chip to reduce system cost.

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Parallel Bus Device Protocols - Arm Bus: Lesson - 23

The document discusses ARM buses for connecting devices in an embedded system. It describes the AMBA-AHB bus which connects high-speed memory and the AMBA-APB bus which connects low-speed peripherals. An AMBA-APB bridge allows the ARM processor to communicate with both buses, connecting the high-speed AHB bus to external devices through the lower speed APB bus. This bridge integrates the two buses onto a single microcontroller chip to reduce system cost.

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DEVICES AND COMMUNICATION

BUSES FOR DEVICES NETWORK

Lesson-23: PARALLEL BUS


DEVICE PROTOCOLS ARM BUS

2008

Chapter-3 L23: "Embedded Systems - " , Raj Kamal,


Publs.: McGraw-Hill Education

AMBA (ARM Main Memory Bus Architecture)


AHB (ARM High Performance Bus)

AMBA-AHB interfaces the memory,


external DRAM (dynamic RAM
controller and on-chip I/O devices
 AMBA-AHB connects to 32-bit data
and 32-bit address lines at high speed
 AHB maximum bps bandwidth
sixteen times ARM processor clock


2008

Chapter-3 L23: "Embedded Systems - " , Raj Kamal,


Publs.: McGraw-Hill Education

AMBA (ARM Main Memory Bus Architecture)


APB (ARM Peripheral Bus)


AMBA -APB interfaces ARM


processor with the memory AMBAAHB and external -chip I/O devices,
which operate at low speed using a
bridge (AMBA-APB bridge)

2008

Chapter-3 L23: "Embedded Systems - " , Raj Kamal,


Publs.: McGraw-Hill Education

AMBA-APB bridge




Switches ARM CPU communication with the


AMBA bus to APB bus.
ARM processor based microcontroller has a single
data bus in AMBA-AHB that connects to the
bridge, which integrate the bridge onto the same
integrated circuit as the processor to reduce the
number of chips required to build a system and
thus the system cost.
The bridge communicates with the memory
through a AMBA-AHB, a dedicated set of wires
that transfer data between these two systems.
A separate APB I/O bus connects the bridge to the
I/O devices.

2008

Chapter-3 L23: "Embedded Systems - " , Raj Kamal,


Publs.: McGraw-Hill Education

ARM Buses
DRAM
ARM
Processor
of system
A

ROM

Address bus AMBA-AHB Memory High


Data bus
speed bus Bridge
Control bus
AMBA-APB bus controller (Bridge)

AMBA-APB bus
APB low speed bus

SDIO
2008

IO device I2C host

I2C

CAN
controller

bus"Embedded Systems - " ,CAN


Chapter-3 L23:
Raj Kamal,
bus
Publs.: McGraw-Hill Education

Touch
screen
5

APB bus
connects
2
 I C
 touch screen
 SDIO
 MMC (multimedia card)
 USB
 CAN bus and other required interfaces
to an ARM microcontroller
2008

Chapter-3 L23: "Embedded Systems - " , Raj Kamal,


Publs.: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

2008

Chapter-3 L23: "Embedded Systems - " , Raj Kamal,


Publs.: McGraw-Hill Education

We learnt
ARM bus two types AMBA-AHB
and AMBA-APB.
AHB connects high speed memory
APB connects the external peripherals
to system memory bus through a
bridge

2008

Chapter-3 L23: "Embedded Systems - " , Raj Kamal,


Publs.: McGraw-Hill Education

End of Lesson 23 of Chapter 3

2008

Chapter-3 L23: "Embedded Systems - " , Raj Kamal,


Publs.: McGraw-Hill Education

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