• Bus Matrix

    Felix Varghese
    Felix Varghese
    Note: This was originally posted on 28th January 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

    What exactly is a bus matrix? I came across the term in ARM cortex M3 specs but couldnt find any proper description. Can someone help?
    • over 6 years ago
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  • PL031 verilog generation

    nicolan nicolan
    nicolan nicolan
    Note: This was originally posted on 19th February 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

    Pls, I need an answer to a blocking issue  :rolleyes:

    I tried to generate a verilog code for PL031 connection matrix 2x3.
    Unfortunely generated HSEL signal for each slave doesn't…
    • over 6 years ago
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  • the usage of WSTRB signal

    Dong Luo
    Dong Luo
    Note: This was originally posted on 26th February 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

    Hi All,
    I was going through the AMBA AXI specs, but I have some questions about the usage of the WSTRB signal. In the middle of a burst, can some bits of WSTRB be low? Again…
    • over 6 years ago
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  • ARM Cortex ICode, DCode, System buses

    Felix Varghese
    Felix Varghese
    Note: This was originally posted on 26th February 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

    I'm a bit confused about the bus structure and memory model of ARM Cortex M3. First of all, does Cortex M3 actually have 3 physically separate buses coming out of it?
    …
    • over 6 years ago
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  • Write Data Interleaving - AXI

    Amaresh Chaligeri
    Amaresh Chaligeri
    Note: This was originally posted on 19th March 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

    Hello,

    Can anybody help me to understand the reasoning behind write data interleaving ordering restriction imposed by AXI spec.
    [Chapter 8.5  Write data interleaving]

    "The order…
    • over 6 years ago
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  • In AMBA AHB, is hgrnat must be low after 1st clock cycle of an ERROR response?

    Koteswara Rao P
    Koteswara Rao P

    Hi,

    In AMBA AHB:-

         For two clock cycle SPLIT or RETRY response, hgrant must be low after 1st clock cycle of SPLIT or RETRY response.

       q)  For two clock cycle ERROR response, is it mandatory of hgrant must be low after 1st clock…

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    • over 4 years ago
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  • AHB HREADY low not after address phase

    Moish
    Moish

    What would happen if HREADY will be lower not after address phase, but according to HW internal logic that wants to hold CPU for some clock cycles.

    Thanks

    • Answered
    • over 3 years ago
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  • In AHB 2.0 Standard, Can I insert BUSY cycles in INCR16 burst or WRAP16 burst?

    WONG CHENG YEE
    WONG CHENG YEE

    I am a Digital Verification Design Engineer.

    Currently, I am in the process of developing an UVM Test Bench for AHB 2.0.


    I have following questions.

    1) From AHB Master side, Can BUSY cycles be inserted in middle of INCR16 burst?

    2) From AHB Master side,…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Why the address boundary for AHB burst should not cross 1KB

    Mohankumar
    Mohankumar

    Why the address boundary for AHB burst should not cross 1KB??

    And in case of burst operation, is that every beat the address increment taken care by master?

    • over 3 years ago
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  • STM(System Trace Macrocell)

    dudu8
    dudu8

    Can i observe the 1KB data that it is written over the STM AXI interface from STM ATB BUS ?

    what i mean is that i want to send a 1KB data from STM AXI and observe it from the STM ATB with MIPI STPv2 format.

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Regarding retry response

    VIJAY KUMAR
    VIJAY KUMAR

    Im new to the ahb protocol can  any on give me an idea about retry response, when a retry response is generated from slave side.

    • Answered
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Burst termination with BUSY transfer on AHB

    Hyunkyu
    Hyunkyu

    I heard that when HTRANS is BUSY, undefined length burst (INCR) will be terminated.

    But when I read a document, I saw an example that BUSY transfer followed by SEQ transfer during an undefined length burst.

    Doesn't it mean that INCR is not terminated?

    …
    • Answered
    • over 1 year ago
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  • AHB revisions from AHB3 to AHB5

    Hyunkyu
    Hyunkyu

    I noticed that "Multi slave select" is one of the new features in AHB5.

    But, isn't it possible to set multiple slaves in a system with a decoder and a multiplexor?

    I think we can do that with AHB3.

    What is the major difference between AHB3…

    • Answered
    • over 1 year ago
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  • AMBA

    vish9746
    vish9746

    How is it possible for AMBA bus protocol to communicate between ASB bus and APB bus,if they operate in different frequency's? ASB is high performance high frequency bus and APB is low performance low frequency bus..how that communication is happening…

    • Answered
    • over 1 year ago
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  • APB3 Slave responding when PSEL = 0

    vshankar11
    vshankar11

    Hello All,

    Here at IP Level verification we have no issues as the Master APB does not latch the PREADY, but at SOC Level with multiple APB Slaves 

    The Master performs some transaction with APB SLAVE 1 and before switching to APB SLAVE 2 , it disables the…

    • Answered
    • over 1 year ago
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  • AXI3 write data interleaving with same AWID

    mveereshm622
    mveereshm622

    This is regarding the AXI3 write data interleaving. I understand how the write data interleaving works when AWID=WID when a slave is accessed by multi masters or a single master which can generate multiple outstanding transactions. But I have a query on…

    • Answered
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Axi4 Write Transaction

    SelvamThangam
    SelvamThangam

    I got a doubt,Does Master should wait for Bresp to send next Write transaction or it can continuously send the transaction independent for Bresp.

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Assertion for Multiple Transfer on APB Bus

    Rakesh Venkatesan
    Rakesh Venkatesan

    Hi,

       Can you please help me in writing assertions to take care on multiple transfer in APB bus?

    Thanks,

    Rakesh

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Amba Adaptive Traffic Profiles question

    armchronos
    armchronos

    Hi,

    I see the Amba Adaptive Traffic Profiles blog and it's interesting.

    Is it only a specification ?

    Any public domain source code (C++ or Python) or executable to generate the traffic patterns in a commercial simulator ? 

    Thanks,

    David

    • over 1 year ago
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  • ACE protocol : Eviction and snoop request at same time

    Chakri Myneni
    Chakri Myneni

    How to handle below scenario ?

    • At time t1 let us suppose L1 data cache is evicting a line and write address is sent on write address channel by asserting AWVALID (AWREADY is high)
    • At same time t1, there is a snoop request from interconnect on snoop address…
    • Answered
    • over 1 year ago
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  • boundary concept

    maitry
    maitry

    Hi all,

    I am new to protocols AHB and AXI.

    can anyone explain why there is 4kb boundary in AXI and why there is 1 kb boundary in AHB?

    Also what these boundaries are for? Does they represent the maximum slave size?

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Transfer size in AMBA AXI

    subhajit02
    subhajit02

    Hi, I am not so clear about the concept of transfer size in AMBA AXI. My question is how to calculate wrap_boundary in wrap based data transfer when Number_Bytes (The maximum number of bytes in each data transfer) is changing in each transfer within a…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • AXI-4 questions

    SBR_123
    SBR_123

    Hello,

    I am pretty new to AMBA protocol and I am specifically interested in AXI-4. I have a few fundamental questions related to AXI-4 and I would appreciate if anyone can answer these.

    1) I would like to know how read and write address requests issued…

    • Answered
    • over 4 years ago
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  • AMBA AXI CACHE

    srp
    srp

    i am not able to understand working of this CACHE signal pleas explain with simple example.

    thank you!

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Burst Length of wrap type in AXI4

    KPranav
    KPranav

    As per spec, the burst length of wrap type should be 2,4,8 or 16. But at the same time it is also mentioned that burst length= AxLEN[7:0] +1, to accommodate the extended burst length of the INCR burst type in AXI4.

    If my burst length value is 2 i.e [00000010…

    • over 1 year ago
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