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Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA)

Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB)

AHB

AMBA

APB

ATPG

Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG)

AXI

Byte

Core

DNM

Do Not Modify (DNM)

Halfword

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AMBA is the ARM open standard for multi-master on-chip buses, capable of running

with multiple masters and slaves. It is an on-chip bus specification that details a strategy

for the interconnection and management of functional blocks that make up a

System-on-Chip (SoC). It aids in the development of embedded processors with one or

more CPUs or signal processors and multiple peripherals. AMBA complements a

reusable design methodology by defining a common backbone for SoC modules. AHB

conforms to this standard.

The AMBA Advanced Peripheral Bus is a simpler bus protocol than AHB. It is designed

for use with ancillary or general-purpose peripherals such as timers, interrupt

controllers, UARTs, and I/O ports. Connection to the main system bus is through a

system-to-peripheral bus bridge that helps to reduce system power consumption.

See also Advanced High-performance Bus.

See Advanced High-performance Bus.

See Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture.

See Advanced Peripheral Bus.

See Automatic Test Pattern Generation.

The process of automatically generating manufacturing test vectors for an ASIC design,

using a specialized software tool.

See Advanced eXtensible Interface.

An 8-bit data item.

A core is that part of a processor that contains the ALU, the datapath, the

general-purpose registers, the Program Counter, and the instruction decode and control

circuitry.

See Do Not Modify.

In Do Not Modify fields, the value must not be altered by software. DNM fields read as

Unpredictable values, and must only be written with the same value read from the same

field on the same processor.

A 16-bit data item.

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