The bi-directional AHB/AHB Bridge is used to interconnect high-speed and low-speed AMBA AHB buses. The bridge supports synchronous clocks with any frequency ratio between the two interconnected buses.
Internally, the bridge consists of two uni-directional AHB to AHB bridges and additional logic to synchronize signals (other than AHB signals) crossing high-speed bus and low-speed bus clock domains.
A high-speed AMBA AHB bus hosting e.g. LEON3 CPUs and a external memory controller can be interconnected with a with a low-speed AHB bus hosting e.g. hosting slow communication IP-cores.
Bi-directional AMBA AHB/AHB bridge
Overview
Key Features
- AMBA AHB master and AHB slave interfaces
- Bi-directional communication, allows masters on either bus side
- Handles single and burst transfers in both directions
- Internal FIFOs for data buffering
- Implements SPLIT response to improve AMBA AHB bus utilization
- Synchronous clock support, any frequency ratio
- Compatible with AMBA-2.0
Benefits
- The AHB/AHB Bridge provides the capability develop system-on-a-chip designs with multiple AMBA AHB buses, that can operate on different clock frequencies.
Deliverables
- Source code
- Synplify project file
- VHDL test bench
- Template design for LEON3 processor
- FPGA evaluation board (optional)
Technical Specifications
Maturity
Production
Availability
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