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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

AMBA-PCIe Interoperability

The native bus in ARM systems, Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA)
[see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Microcontroller_Bus_Architecture] has been interoperable with
PCI Express (PCIe) for several years now. These are related documentation that helps understanding
how it works:
1. Designing an AMBA-based SoC with a PCI Express Interface,
   link: http://www.pcisig.com/developers/main/training_materials/get_document?doc_id=fcb3ebb3b4537c401230b3f3cd71e7895b7c5518

2. Building a Bridge from PCI Express to AMBA 3 AXI On-Chip Bus,
   link: http://www.synopsys.com/dw/dwtb.php?a=pcie_tb_axi
 
3. This one is even more interesting: Implementing a PCI-Express AMBA interface controller on a Spartan6 FPGA,   link: http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/176608/176608.pdf
 
This shows how far the layered design of PCIe could interoperate with AMBA bus from ARM.
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