Design Principles
The important aspect of a SoC is not only which components or blocks it houses, but also how they are interconnected. AMBA is a solution for the blocks to interface with each other.
The objective of the AMBA specification is to:
- facilitate right-first-time development of embedded microcontroller products with one or more CPUs, GPUs or signal processors,
- be technology independent, to allow reuse of IP cores, peripheral and system macrocells across diverse IC processes,
- encourage modular system design to improve processor independence, and the development of reusable peripheral and system IP libraries
- minimize silicon infrastructure while supporting high performance and low power on-chip communication.
Read more about this topic: Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture
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