AMBA System IP & Design Tools

AMBA^® System IP and design tools provide the components and the methodology for designers to build SoCs that maximize the efficiency of data movement and storage, thus delivering the performance they need at the lowest power and cost.

AMBA System IP products from ARM - interconnect, memory controllers, peripherals and system controllers - are built to conform to the open AMBA interface specifications: AXI, AHB, APB and ATB. The latest AMBA 4 adds three new interface protocols: AXI4, AXI4-Lite and AXI4-Stream, specified by ARM with wide cross-industry consultation.

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ARM supplies all the major components to move and store data between processors and memory. This includes fully featured cache controllers, DMA controllers, network interconnect, static and dynamic memory controllers and memory interface PHYs to the highest specifications. AMBA design tools enable the easy configuration, performance exploration and verification of the ARM subsystem.

Tried and Tested IP

High quality ARM system IP is widely licensed and implemented by our silicon partners active in many diverse application areas, so you can rest assured that our configurable AMBA products can be re-used in multiple SoC over many years.

ARM Expertise

ARM engineers have designed both the world's No. 1 IP processors (Cortex (A,R,M), Mali and Classic ARM processors) and the most deployed interconnect architecture, AMBA, and have the expertise and experience to design and support the AMBA system IP to maximize system performance and minimize power consumption. ARM engineers also contribute to memory interface specifications in the JEDEC and SPMT standards bodies.

Easy Re-use of IP

AMBA is the most widely used on-chip interconnect architecture in SoC designs providing ready re-use of AMBA products across all your SoC designs:

"We have had many successful years designing SOC solutions relying on AMBA, the industry's de-facto standard for on-chip communication," said Masakazu Yamashina, general manager of the Mobile Systems Division at NEC Electronics.

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AMBA Design Tools

Quotes on AMBA from some of our customers:

"AMBA AXI methodology brings a new step forward for high bandwidth and low latency design with backward AHB compatibility." - Michel Guellec, IP Design manager, Atmel Rousset.

"AMBA AXI technology introduces new capabilities, not just at the protocol level but also to ease physical implementation of the bus in deep sub-micron technologies. These new features will likely expand the adoption of AMBA technology beyond just next-generation processors SoC subsystems to other application specific areas with high-bandwidth and low-latency requirements. LSI Logic is already implementing targeted peripherals and subsystems based on the draft AMBA AXI standard." - Rafi Kedem, senior director of processor cores technology group, LSI Logic.
"Having largely standardized our internal methodology for ARM core-based SoC and macro development around AMBA 2.0 technology we are looking forward to introducing the enhanced capabilities of the AMBA AXI methodology." - Ewald Preiss, manager, Macro Development Group, NEC Electronics (Europe)
"We believe that the AMBA AXI architecture will enable us to deliver the best solution to our customers." - Tomihiro Ishihara, department manager of SoC design support group, 3rd Custom LSI Division, 1st Business Development Operation Unit, NEC Electronics Corporation
"AMBA technology has been very useful in developing our mobile application processors. We believe that the new AMBA AXI methodology would contribute a lot in making the SoC integration more efficient, simpler and easier, definitely with a lot of performance improvement." - Dr. Yun-Tae Lee, vice president of Mobile Solution Project, Samsung Electronics
"System-level interconnect can be a bottleneck that erodes performance. One of the reasons ARM CPUs have been so successful in ASIC development is that ARM had the foresight to develop AMBA technology and have energetically deployed it. AMBA technology helps reduce design time for ARM core-based ASICs and is important for the success of the ARM11™ architecture." - Richard Tobias, vice president, ASIC and Foundry Business Unit, System LSI Group, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.