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AMBA – Developed By ARM

• The Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) is an open-standard, on-chip


interconnect specification for managing communication between various blocks in a SoC
(System on Chip).
• Three distinct buses are defined within the AMBA specification:
• the Advanced High-performance Bus (AHB)
• the Advanced System Bus (ASB)
• the Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB).

Advanced High-performance Bus (AHB)


• The AMBA AHB is for high-performance, high clock frequency system modules.
• The AHB acts as the high-performance system backbone bus. AHB supports the efficient
connection of processors
Advanced System Bus (APB)
• The AMBA ASB is for high-performance system modules.
• AMBA ASB is an alternative system bus suitable for use where the high-performance features
of AHB are not required
Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB)
• The AMBA APB is for low-power peripherals.
• AMBA APB is optimized for minimal power consumption and reduced interface complexity to
support peripheral functions.
• APB can be used in conjunction with either version of the system bus.
Why these types of Buses?
- Because to support security

AMBA Versions:
AMBA Versions Year Main Protocols Key focus
AMBA 1 1996 APB,ASB Basic SOC connectivity for peripherals
AMBA 2 1999 APB,AHB High-performance system bus
AMBA 3 2003 AXI(AXI4,AXI4_Lite,AXI4-Stream) High-speed Data handling, pipelining
AMBA 4 2011 AXI4,ACE(ACE-Lite) Cache coherency for multi-core systems
AMBA 5 2016 CHI,AXI4 High-throughput, large multi-core support
AMBA 5.1 2020 Enhanced CHI Heterogeneous systems, AI/ML
acceleration
Why to use AMBA?
- They provide convertible high level to assembly level
- They give support to develop new IP’s
- New features

About the AMBA AHB


- Burst Transfer
- Split transaction
- Single cycle bus master
- Single clock edge operation
- Wider data bus configuration (64/128 bits)
Features
Larger overhead -27 control signals
Up to 15 +1 is dummy master = 16 masters are allowed.

AMBA AHB Based system


Bus Interconnection

Signal Mapping

Bridge : bridging a gap between high speed AHB and low speed APB.
Imaginational visuals:

What is the need of bridge ?


- Ensures that there is no data loss during transfer on either direction ahp or apb to ahp
- Clock synchronization

Transaction scenarios
- Basic read/write
- Burst transfer (APB)
- Back-to-back transaction
- Error scenarios
- Randomized tests.

Purpose of AHB to APB bridge ?


- Protocol conversion
- Clock domain crossing
- Signal compatibility

Note : Above written data is not limited here, it can be added.


Have done my best…..

Will be continued…….
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