Glossary
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the master and slave interface conventions for AXI components.
AXI terminology
The following AXI terms are general. They apply to both masters and slaves:
Active read transaction
A transaction for which the read address has transferred, but the last read data has
not yet transferred.
Active transfer
A transfer for which the
xVALID
1
handshake has asserted, but for which
xREADY
has not yet asserted.
Active write transaction
A transaction for which the write address and/or leading write data has
transferred, but the write response has not yet transferred.
Completed transfer
A transfer for which the
xVALID
/
xREADY
handshake is complete.
Payload
The non-handshake signals in a transfer.
Transaction
An entire burst of transfers, comprising an address, one or more data transfers and
a response transfer (writes only).
Transmit
An initiator driving the payload and asserting the relevant
xVALID
signal.
Transfer
A single exchange of information. That is, with one
xVALID
/
xREADY
handshake.
The following AXI terms are master interface attributes. To obtain optimum performance, they
must be specified for all components with an AXI master interface:
Combined issuing capability
The maximum number of active transactions that a master interface can generate.
This is specified instead of write or read issuing capability for master interfaces
that use a combined storage for active write and read transactions.
Read ID capability
The maximum number of different
ARID
values that a master interface can
generate for all active read transactions at any one time.
AXI
interconnect
Write address channel (
AW
)
Write data channel (W)
Write response channel (
B
)
Read address channel (AR)
Read data channel (R)
Write address channel (AW)
Write data channel (W)
Write response channel (B)
Read address channel (
AR
)
Read data channel (
R
)
AXI slave
interface
AXI master
interface
AXI
master
AXI
slave
AXI master
interface
AXI slave
interface
1. The letter
x
in the signal name denotes an AXI channel as follows:
AW
Write address channel.
W
Write data channel.
B
Write response channel.
AR
Read address channel.
R
Read data channel.