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Number of masters/slaves in AHB

Harin Maniyar over 3 years ago

Why there are restrictions on the number of masters up to 16 in AHB?

Can we change the number of masters?

Is it possible to change HMASTER[3:0] to any higher number of bits so we can have more number of master connected with AHB?

I think that we can connect multiple slaves without any restrictions depending on the address bus width each slave having a 1KB boundary address distribution. So is it correct?

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Colin Campbell over 3 years ago +1 verified

16 masters would be seen as a theoretically high number of masters to all share one bus, and in real applications you would expect the number to be FAR fewer. Remember that only one master can actively...