AMBA

Key AMBA Specifications

The Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) is a freely available, open standard to connect and manage functional blocks in a system-on-chip (SoC). It facilitates the right-first-time development of multiprocessor designs, with large numbers of controllers and peripherals.

AMBA specifications are royalty free and platform independent, and can be used with any processor architecture. Due to its widespread adoption, AMBA has a robust ecosystem of partners that ensures compatibility and scalability between IP components from different design teams and vendors.

 
 

Latest AMBA Specifications

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Key Features and Benefits

Flexibility

IP reuse requires a common standard while supporting a wide variety of SoCs with different power, performance, and area requirements. AMBA interfaces scale from simple, low-cost peripheral programming ports to fully coherent, high-bandwidth ports, spanning multiple interconnects and chip-to-chip interfacing.
Compatibility

As an open standard specification, it helps ensure compatibility between IP components from different suppliers. Wide compatibility enables low-friction integration and design reuse, helping to reduce cost of ownership and to accelerate time-to-market. Compatible IP products vary from memory controllers, interconnects, trace solutions, GPUs, CPUs, peripherals, and many others.
Widely Adopted Open Standard

AMBA is accepted as the standard for on-chip communication and is widely adopted across the industry. It has a long heritage of dependability and trust, and is used extensively in standards-based IP worldwide.
Support

The wide adoption of AMBA throughout the semiconductor industry has driven a comprehensive market in third-party IP products and tools to support the development of AMBA-based systems.
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AMBA 5

AMBA 5 is the latest generation of freely available AMBA protocol specifications. It introduces the Coherent Hub Interface (CHI) architecture, which defines the interfaces to connect fully coherent processors and high-performance interconnects. AMBA 5 also introduces the AXI5, ACE5 and AHB5 protocols, which extend prior generations to include a number of performances and scalability features, and to align and complement CHI.

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