A generic AHB bus for implementing high-speed locally synchronous islands

Author

Dubois, Mathieu ; Savaria, Yvon ; Bois, Guy

Author_Institution

Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

2005

fDate

8-10 April 2005

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

16

Abstract

Platform-based design requires flexibility and compatibility between components in order to design derivative applications without changing hardware or software. Several solutions are available, but they lack either the necessary throughput or flexibility. The paper proposes a generic multi-frequency interconnection infrastructure module that facilitates development of flexible on-chip high-performance buses. It is based on the AMBA high-speed bus (AHB). The proposed architecture has been implemented with the HDL Designer environment and laid out as a 0.18 μm CMOS module using Synopsys tools to validate the proposed concepts.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; hardware description languages; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; shared memory systems; system buses; system-on-chip; 0.18 micron; CMOS module; HDL Designer; SoC modules; compatibility; flexibility; generic AMBA high-speed bus; generic multi-frequency interconnection infrastructure module; high-speed locally synchronous islands; on-chip high-performance buses; platform-based design; shared memory system; Access protocols; Application software; CMOS technology; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Design optimization; Distributed control; Hardware design languages; Spine; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SoutheastCon, 2005. Proceedings. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8865-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2005.1423208

Filename

1423208