Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture - Design Principles

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.