Design and analysis of microcontroller system using AMBA-Lite bus

Wang Hang Suan,Asral Bahari Jambek,Mohamad Halim Abd Wahid

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201716201070

Abstract

Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) is one of the well-designed on chip communication system. It is designed for right first-time development with many processor and peripherals. In this paper, the different family of AMBA architecture such as AXI, APB, AHB are reviewed. In this work, the AMBA-Lite is used and implemented with a few peripherals and an ARM processor. The work is simulated using Synopsys and demonstrated on the Digilent Nexys4 DDR board and the software use to synthesis the design is Vivado 2016.2.

Highlights

The demand of microcontroller is increasing rapidly in this few decades
The technology allows the integration of different part of component into a single chip which known as System on Chip (SoC) [1]
One of the main advantage of SoC is that the intellectual property (IP) can be reuse in other design

Summary

Introduction

The demand of microcontroller is increasing rapidly in this few decades. The Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) developed by ARM Ltd. is designed for this purpose. The AMBA-Lite is a simplified version of the AMBA bus family, but it can only support a single master. This cause some of the signals for multi-master system is removed like HGRANT, HBUSREQ. This include burst transfer, single clock edge operation, non-tristate implementation and so on [3].

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