Functional Description
ARM DDI 0397G
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Non-secure
All transactions originating from this slave interface are flagged as non-secure
transactions and cannot access secure components.
Per access
The
AxPROTx
signal determines the security setting of each transaction, and
the slaves that it can access.
•
Support for the full AXI protocol.
Note
You can achieve a gate count reduction and a performance increase if the attached master
does not create any AXI lock transactions.
•
Write acceptance capability of 1-32 transactions.
•
Read acceptance capability of 1-32 transactions.
•
Buffering, see
FIFO and clocking function
on page 2-15.
•
Timing isolation:
—
from the external master
—
from the infrastructure.
AHB-Lite slave interfaces
The AMBA Network Interconnect can support the full AHB-Lite protocol using either:
•
an AHB-Lite slave interface
•
an AHB-Lite mirror master interface.
The following configuration options can improve AHB-Lite to AXI performance, but cannot
always be used robustly:
•
INCR promotion and Early Write Response
•
allow broken bursts
.
If you configure the interface as an AHB mirror master interface, you cannot configure
allow
broken bursts
because the AHB-Lite protocol does not permit AHB-Lite masters to break
bursts.
Table 2-1 shows the four combinations for the configuration of
INCR promotion and Early Write
Response
and
allow broken bursts
and contains links to detailed descriptions for each option.
Table 2-1 Combination of configuration parameters
INCR promotion and Early Write Response
allow broken bursts
Description of combination
Configured
Not configured
Combination 1
on page 2-5
Not configured
Configured
Combination 2
on page 2-5
Configured
Configured
Combination 3
on page 2-5
Not configured
Not configured
Combination 4
on page 2-6