ARM AMBA NIC-301 - Manual (Page 18)

Functional Description
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2.2 Interfaces
This section describes the AMBA Network Interconnect interfaces and contains the following
subsections:
•
Slave interfaces
• Master interfaces on page 2-8.
2.2.1 Slave interfaces
The AMBA Network Interconnect supports the following slave interfaces:
•
AXI slave interfaces
• AHB-Lite slave interfaces on page 2-4.
Note
Any transaction that does not decode to a legal master interface destination, or programmers
view register, receives a DECERR response. For an AHB master, the AXI DECERR is mapped
back to an AHB ERROR.
The AXI DECERR error is mapped back to an AHB master ERROR if:
• you do not configure the early write response
• you configure INCR Promotion and Early Write Response and the transaction is
non-cacheable
• the AHB burst is not broken.
AXI slave interfaces
An AXI slave interface supports the full AXI protocol.
Configuration options
You can configure the following properties:
• Address width of 32-64 bits.
• Data width of 32, 64, 128, or 256 bits.
• User sideband signal width of 0-32 bits.
• Data width upsize function, see Upsizing data width function on page 2-12.
• Data width downsize function, see Downsizing data width function on page 2-14.
• Frequency domain crossing of the following types:
—
ASYNC
— SYNC 1:1
— SYNC 1:n
— SYNC n:1
— SYNC n:m.
• Security of the following types:
Secure
All transactions originating from this slave interface are flagged as secure
transactions and can access both secure and non-secure components.