Design-Reuse

Comparing AMBA AHB to AXI Bus using System Modeling

Embedded system designers have a choice of using a shared or point-to-point bus in their designs. Typically, an embedded design will have a general purpose processor, cache, SDRAM, DMA port, and ...
EDN

Self-timed interconnect solution supports AXI bus protocol

SAN FRANCISCO — EDA and intellectual property (IP) startup Silistix Ltd. has added support for the on-chip AMBA AXI bus protocol to the company's synthesized self-timed interconnect technology, ...
Design-Reuse

Enabling Rapid Adoption of the AMBA 3 AXI Protocol-based Design with Synopsys DesignWare IP

To successfully develop an AMBAâ„¢ 3 AXIâ„¢ protocol-based design in the shortest amount of time possible requires more than just raw design expertise and individual, piecemeal IP components. It ...
Electronic Design

Understanding FPGA Processor Interconnects

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. FPGAs are wonderful tools. They consist of a collection of logic cells called lookup tables (LUTs) surrounded by an ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Locking When Emulating Xtensa LX Multi-Core On A Xilinx FPGA

Today’s high-performance computing systems often require the designer to instantiate multiple CPU or DSP cores in their subsystem. However, the performance gained by using multiple CPUs comes with ...
EDN

Comparing AMBA AHB to AXI Bus using System Modeling

Embedded system designers have a choice of using a shared or point-to-point bus in their designs. This article discusses the construction of an Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) ...