Summary:

This course forms a comprehensive introduction to the popular AMBA AXI4 on-chip interconnect protocol. It describes the main features of the protocol, together with a number of typical use cases.

Prerequisites:

• A working knowledge of system-on-chip design

Audience:

The course is aimed at Hardware and Software Engineers needing to get an overview of the features, capability and application of the AMBA AXI4 protocol.

Delivery Method:

• Online

Length:

• 1 hour

Modules:

1. AMBA evolution and AXI protocol overview

• What is AMBA and why use it?
• How has AMBA evolved?
• The AXI protocol
• The AXI protocol in multi-master system design
• AXI channels

2. Channel transfers and transactions

• Main AXI features
• Channel handshake
• The difference between transfers and transactions
• Examples of channel transfers
• Write transaction behavior - single data item
• Write transaction behavior - multiple data items
• Read transaction behavior - single data item
• Read transaction behavior - multiple data items
• Active transactions

3. Channel signals in detail

• Data size, length, and burst type
• Protection level support
• Cache support
• Response signalling
• Write data strobes
• Atomic accesses with the lock signal
• Quality of service
• Region signalling and user signals
• AXI channel dependencies
• Read channel signals
• Write channel signals

4. Atomic accesses

• Two types of atomic access
• Locked access overview
• Locked access operation
• Exclusive access overview
• Exclusive access hardware monitor operation
• Exclusive transaction pairs - pass/pass
• Exclusive transaction pairs - pass/fail

5. Transfer behavior and transaction ordering

• Examples of simple transactions
• Transfer IDs
• Write transaction ordering rules
• Read transaction ordering rules
• Read and write channel ordering
• Unaligned transfer start address
• Endianess support
• Write interface attributes
• Read interface attributes
  

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Language: This course is delivered in English.

Delivery Method: Bitesized video content.

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