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AXD cycle count problems

Note: This was originally posted on 23rd September 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

Hello everyone,
I recently use the AXD to study the instruction cycle of ARM926EJ-S processor.
Since it's said that ARM9EJ-S is the core of ARM926EJ-S,
I use both of the model to see the cycle count, and have some problems with them.

Here is the information from AXD with ARM9EJ-S:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~instruction~~CoreCycle~~IDCycle~~IBus~~Idle~~DBus~~Total
add r8, pc, #0xc4~~~~~~1~~~~~~~~~4~~~~~~~~0~~~~~~3~~~~1~~~~0~~~~~4
ldmia r8, {r0,r1} ~~~~~~~2~~~~~~~~~6~~~~~~~~0~~~~~~4~~~~1~~~~1~~~~~6

And the information with ARM9EJ-S is shown below:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~instruction~~CoreCycle~~SEQ~~NONSEQ~~Idle~~Busy~~Total
add r8, pc, #0xc4~~~~~~1~~~~~~~~~4~~~~~~~~2~~~~~~2~~~~~~4~~~~0~~~~~8
ldmia r8, {r0,r1} ~~~~~~~2~~~~~~~~~6~~~~~~~~7~~~~~~3~~~~~~4~~~~0~~~~~14

I suppose that it's reasonable for the same CoreCycle count, since the core processor architecture is the same.
However, use instruction 1 as an example,
it's quite strange that when ARM9EJ-S issue 3 memory request, (I suppose that it's because of the PCs sent out)
the ARM926EJ-S issue 2 SEQ and 2 NONSEQ request with the same instruction executed...
For the instruction 2 it becomes stranger that 5 SEQ and 1 NONSEQ requests are sent out in ARM926EJ-S!

I would expect that the IDCycle+IBus+DBus from ARM9EJ-S will somehow equal to the SEQ+NONSEQ from ARM926EJ-S, but it doesn't !
Can anyone tell me that is there anything I misunderstand with the information?
Thanks a lot!