At last the time has finally come when I can talk about AMBA 5 - the next generation of ARM interface standard.

So, what's new?

To start this discussion it is worth answering a question I frequently get asked, which often goes along the lines of…

By now you would have read the news about the latest ARM® Cortex®-A73 processor and Mali™-G71 GPU. These new processors allow for more performance in an ever thinner mobile device, and accelerate new use cases such as Virtual Reality …

Introduction

ARM recently announced the next in the family of CCN (Cache Coherent Network) solutions. Specifically we introduced the CoreLink CCN-508. A quick recap – CoreLink CCN-508 is a cache coherent network providing support for up to 32 fully coherent…

Introduction

Recently I presented “Coherent Interconnect Technology Supports Exponential Data Flow Growth” at the Linley Processor conference in Santa Clara, CA where I announced a new ARM coherent interconnect product for enterprise applications, the…

ARM products in server and networking? Yes, it’s happening and AMBA® 5 CHI is a big part of making that happen. The AMBA 5 CHI protocol enables the latest ARMv8 architecture Cortex®-A50 series processors to work together in high-performance…

I thought I'd post a short blog post about commonly asked questions on AMBA 4 ACE and system coherency.

What does ACE mean?

ACE is the "AXI Coherency Extensions" introduced with the AMBA 4 specification released in 2011. For those of you thinking "What…

Updated 29th October 2013

High performance and power efficiency are critical to the latest mobile devices, and AMBA® 4 ACE™ is a fundamental technology supporting ARM's big.LITTLE processing. In case you missed the announcements, the big…

Introduction

Contemporary mobile platform SoCs impose intense traffic management demands on the memory subsystem. An intelligent memory controller design comprehends the fundamental memory streaming requirements of a mobile SoC and provides the necessary…