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What purpose does BURST feature in AHB serve?

I am not able to see any visible improvements due to the BURST transfers. The same BURST transfer could be done through multiple SINGLE transfers, in the same number of cycles. Then what is te advantage of having BURST transfers?

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Colin Campbell over 5 years ago +1 verified

HBURST can be used by a master to indicate exactly how many transfers it wishes to perform (4, 8 or 16) This can then be used by an arbiter to decide when it should change the granted master (usually...