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System IP - AMBA and CoreSight

System IP - AMBA and CoreSight Image (View Larger System IP - AMBA and CoreSight Image) ARM System IP provides the digital highway between ARM Cortex™ and Mali™ processors and the memory and peripherals to ensure optimal system performance and power efficiency.

The product portfolio includes AMBA® interconnect, static and dynamic memory controllersCoreSight™ debug and trace IP and AMBA design tools for easy and optimal SoC design.

 


Higher system performance and lower system power

AMBA and CoreSight System IP and tools enable SoC designers to build higher performance, lower power SoCs.

Low Risk

High Performance

As the de-facto industry standard the AMBA interconnect and peripheral IP is used by over 100 licensees in 1000’s of designs, giving you confidence that your design will be right first time

 

Whether it is lowest latency or highest bandwidth demanded by the processors, ARM System IP delivers outstanding efficiency to achieve the performance required with the lowest power and smallest area.

 

Low Power Leadership

Faster to Market

The ARM architecture is a leader in low power. Minimizing data transfers using on-chip cache and maximizing the efficiency of off-chip memory transfers ensures the lowest system power profile at any performance point.

 

Industry standard IP components and design tools for simpler configuration, integration & verification greatly reduce complexity and shorten design cycle times - enabling faster time to market.

 

Visibility

Experience & Expertise

CoreSight Design Kits provide the most complete on-chip debug and real-time trace solution for the entire system-on-chip (SoC), making ARM processor-based SoCs the easiest to debug and optimize.

 

ARM is uniquely place to deliver system IP solutions from processors to pins. With design teams in processor design, interconnect, and memory controllers and PHYs, ARM has the skills and global support teams to deliver world-class on-chip digital highways.

 


AMBA and CoreSight IP products

Explore further by clicking on the area of interest in the SoC block diagram below.

AMBA Design Tools


"The flexibility of the CoreSight technology enables us to provide a cost-effective high-performance debug solution with a number of advanced features including multi-source tracing,” said John Lenell, Engineering Director, Broadcom Corporation. “With CoreSight technology we can offer a comprehensive debug solution supported by industry standard tools enabling our customers to reduce product development time."

"All required features for SoC Architecture were available" System Architect, Networking Silicon Partner using AMBA Network Interconnect NIC-301.

The AMBA Memory Controllers have been licensed by over 70 ARM Partners including: Mtekvision, ZTE and

Broadcom Cypress HiSilicon Kawasaki Microelectronics PMC Sierra Samsung Electronics Socle Toshiba 


Glossary of System IP Product Codes

ARM have recently added mnemonic names, e.g. "DMC-342" for the LPDDR2 AXI Dynamic Memory Controller, to the System IP to help newcomers find their way around the System IP product portfolio, without having to remember what each 3-digit "PLxxx" number stands for.

The PLxxx part numbers still persist as unique identifiers for deliverables in licenses, in the ARM internal SAP database, in current technical documentation and as tags and identifiers in the products themselves. For your convenience the look up table below lists the new mnemonic product code, SAP part number, full product name and AMBA interface protocols supported.

New
Product Code 

 'Old' or SAP
Part Number

 Product Name 

Protocol

NIC-301

PL301

 AMBA Network Interconnect

AXI, AHB, APB

QoS-301

PL501

 Interconnect Quality of Service

AXI

ADK

BP010

 AMBA Design Kit

AHB, APB

DMC-340

PL340

 DDR/LPDDR/SDR Dynamic Memory Controller

AXI

DMC-341

PL341

 DDR2 Dynamic Memory Controller

AXI

DMC-342

PL342

 LPDDR2 Dynamic Memory Controller

AXI

SMC-351

PL351

 NAND Flash Static Memory Controller

AXI

SMC-352

PL352

 NOR Flash Static Memory Controller

AXI

SMC-353

PL353

 NAND/NOR/SRAM Static Memory Controller

AXI

SMC-354

PL354

 NOR/SRAM Static Memory Controller

AXI

ADR-301

FD001

 AMBA Designer (tool)

AXI, AHB, APB

VPE-301

FD100

 Verification & Performance Exploration (tool)

AXI

L2C-310

PL310

 Level 2 Cache Controller

AXI

L2C-210

AC130

 L210 Level 2 Cache Controller

AHB

DMA-330

PL330

 AXI DMA Controller

AXI

DMA-230

PL230

 Micro DMA Controller

AHB

GIC-390

PL390

 Generic Interrupt Controller

AXI

CDK-A9

TM096

 CoreSight Design Kit for Cortex-A9

ATB, APB

CDK-A8

TM094

 CoreSight Design Kit for Cortex-A8

ATB, APB

PTM-A9

TM950

 Program Trace Macrocell for Cortex-A9

ATB, APB

CDK-A5

TM097

 CoreSight Design Kit for Cortex-A5

ATB, APB

CDK-R4

TM095

 CoreSight Design Kit for Cortex-R4

ATB, APB

ETM-R4

TM930

 Embedded Trace Macrocell for Cortex-R4

ATB, APB

CDK-11

TM090

 CoreSight Design Kit for ARM11

ATB, APB

CDK-9

TM085

 CoreSight Design Kit for ARM9E

ATB, APB

Other System IP products remain unchanged and will continue to use their current names.


AMBA and CoreSight Whitepapers

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 Description

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(572 KB)

 Debug and Trace for Multicore SoCs How to build an efficient and effective debug and trace system for multi-core SoCs.

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(1,072 KB)

 Traffic Management for Optimizing Media-Intensive SoCs How Verification & Performance Exploration (VPE) and Quality-of-Service (QoS) mechanisms can optimize the system performance of SoCs with multiple CPU & graphics processors.

 

Presentations on AMBA and CoreSight

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Title 

Description 

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(2,010 KB)

 The Challenges of System Design   How to reduce system latency and increase memory bandwidth utilization; how to provide system visibility for software optimization.

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(2,984 KB)

 Effective System Design with ARM System IP An overview of how System IP and tools can improve your SoC design.

AMBA Design Centres

A list of  ARM Approved Design Centers have been carefully chosen for their technical capabilities, ARM expertise, regional coverage, independence and quality control processes.


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