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ECEN 468 Advanced Digital System Design: Lectur e 8: Bus Architectur e

This document discusses bus architecture and provides examples of different bus implementations. It covers topics such as bus masters, slaves, arbitration, address decoding, and different bus signal types. Examples of bus implementations include tri-state buses, multiplexed buses, and different arbitration schemes. Advanced bus architectures like AMBA and PCI are also summarized.

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ECEN 468 Advanced Digital System Design: Lectur e 8: Bus Architectur e

This document discusses bus architecture and provides examples of different bus implementations. It covers topics such as bus masters, slaves, arbitration, address decoding, and different bus signal types. Examples of bus implementations include tri-state buses, multiplexed buses, and different arbitration schemes. Advanced bus architectures like AMBA and PCI are also summarized.

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ECEN 468

Advanced Digital System Design


Lecture 8: Bus Architecture

ECEN 468 Lecture 8


A Brief Picture

Processor Memory

DMA UART
Controller

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Terminology

v  Bus master: that initiates data transfer


v  Bus slave: addressed by the master
o  Some components are always masters, some are always slaves and some
can do each at different time

v  Bus arbitration: decide the next bus master


v  Decoder: decode address
v  Bridge: interface between two different buses

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 3


Bus Signal Types

v  Address
v  Data
o  Typical data width 8-1024 bits
v  Control
o  Request
o  Acknowledge
o  Grant
o  … …

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 4


Implementation of Bus Signals: Tri-state

Memory
Processor

Control

v  Less devices, wires and area


v  High power, high delay, hard to debug
v  Common for off-chip/backplane buses

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 5


Implementation of Bus Signals: Mux

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Bus Arbitration Schemes

v  Fixed priority (static priority)


o  Preemptive
o  Non-preemptive
o  Starvation of low-priority masters
v  Rotating priority (round-robin)
o  Critical data may wait for long time
v  TDMA (time division multiple access)
o  Each master is allocated certain time slots for data communication
v  Dynamic priority
v  Hybrid

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 7


Centralized Bus Arbitration

BBUSY
BRQST Wired AND
Arbiter
BGRNT1 BGRNT2 Daisy
Comp1 Comp2
chain

BRQST

BGRNT1
BGRNT2

BBUSY

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Distributed Bus Arbitration

v  No arbiter, less arbitration hardware


v  Each component has an ID
v  Based on wired logic among bus requests, if it matches with ID
v  Often requires significant circuit change when additional
components are added
o  Easier for centralized arbitration

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 9


Data Transfer: Asynchronous
Request, Grant

Address

Master ready

Slave ready

Data

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 10


Data Transfer: Synchronous

Clock

Request, Grant

Address

Data

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 11


Data Transfer: Pipelined

Clock

Request1

Request2

Grant1

Grant2

Address A1 A2

Data D1 D2
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Other Data Transfer Modes

v  Burst transfer


o  For one arbitration, do multiple data transfers
v  Split transfer
o  If slave operation will take multiple cycles, it issues “split” to arbiter
o  Its master is idle waiting for the slave
o  The arbiter start process next requests, masking of THE master
v  Out-of-order transfer
o  Interleave data transfers from multiple masters
v  Broadcast transfer
o  1 source, multiple receivers of the data

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 13


AMBA Bus

v  Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture


v  On-chip bus for SoC designs, like smart phone chips
v  Introduced by ARM in 1996
v  AMBA 1
o  ASB: Advanced System Bus
o  APB: Advanced Peripheral Bus
v  AMBA 2, AHB (Advanced High-performance Bus), extension
to ASB
v  AMBA 3, AXI (Advanced eXtensible Interface)
v  de facto standard for 32-bit embedded processors

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 14


AMBA Bus
AHB APB
v High performance v Low power
v Pipelined transfers v Simple interface
v Burst transfers v Accommodate many peripherals
v Split transfers
v Multiple masters

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 15


AHB Lite Architecture

v Supports burst transfers


v Mux-based implementation
v Configurable bus width

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Bus Matrix (Crossbar)

Master1 Master2 Master3

Switched
link

Slave1 Slave2 Slave3

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Partial Crossbar

Master1 Master2 Master3

Slave1 Slave2 Slave3

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 18


Multi-Master AHB Lite

v AHB-Lite allows only 1


master
v If multi-master needed
o  Isolate masters by additional
interconnect layer
o  The interconnect ~ partial
crossbar

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PCI Bus

v  Peripheral Component Interconnect


v  Off-chip bus
v  Based on IBM PCs
v  Designed by Intel in 1992
v  Plug-and-play capability for connecting I/O components

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 20


USB

v Universal Serial Bus Host computer


v Message from host broadcast to Root
all I/O components hub
v An I/O talks with host, not
other I/O Hub Hub
v Serial links
v Host poll each I/O Hub
v An I/O sends only if it is polled
v Data packet includes ID and
CRC (cyclic redundancy check)

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 21


Networks-On-Chip

Core

Router

Link

Data are transported


in packets like in
macro world network

ECEN 468 Lecture 8 22

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