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Introduction about APB Protocol
- 2. Introduction AMBA was introduced by ARM in 1996. The first AMBA buses were the Advanced System Bus (ASB) and the Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB). The APB is part of the AMBA protocol family. It provides a low-cost interface that is optimized for minimal power consumption and reduced interface complexity. The APB interfaces to any peripherals that are low-bandwidth and do not require the high performance of a pipelined bus interface. The APB has unpipelined protocol. All signal transitions are only related to the rising edge of the clock to enable the integration of APB peripherals easily into any design flow.
- 3. Signal Description: PCLK – The rising edge of PCLK times all transfers on the APB. PRESETn - The APB reset signal is active LOW. This signal is normally connected directly to the system bus reset signal. PADDR - This is the APB address bus. It can be up to 32 bits wide and is driven by the peripheral bus bridge unit. PSELx - The APB bridge unit generates this signal to each peripheral bus slave. It indicates that the slave device is selected and that a data transfer is required. There is a PSELx signal for each slave. PENABLE -This signal indicates the second and subsequent cycles of an APB transfer. PWRITE - This signal indicates an APB write access when HIGH and an APB read access when LOW.
- 4. Signal Description: PWDATA - This bus is driven by the peripheral bus bridge unit during write cycles when PWRITE is HIGH. This bus can be up to 32 bits wide. PREADY - The slave uses this signal to extend an APB transfer. PRDATA - The selected slave drives this bus during read cycles when PWRITE is LOW. This bus can be up to 32-bits wide. PSLVERR - This signal indicates a transfer failure. APB peripherals are not required to support the PSLVERR pin. This is true for both existing and new APB peripheral designs. Where a peripheral does not include this pin then the appropriate input to the APB bridge is tied LOW.
- 6. Write Transfers: With no wait states: The write transfer starts with the address, write data, write signal and select signal all changing after the rising edge of the clock. The first clock cycle of the transfer is called the Setup phase. After the following clock edge the enable signal is asserted, PENABLE, and this indicates that the Access phase is taking place.
- 7. Write Transfer: The address, data and control signals all remain valid throughout the Access phase. The transfer completes at the end of this cycle. The enable signal, PENABLE, is deasserted at the end of the transfer. The select signal, PSELx, also goes LOW unless the transfer is to be followed immediately by another transfer to the same peripheral.
- 8. Write Transfer: With wait state: The PREADY signal from the slave can extend the transfer. During an Access phase, when PENABLE is HIGH, the transfer can be extended by driving PREADY LOW. PREADY can take any value when PENABLE is LOW. This ensures that peripherals that have a fixed two cycle access can tie PREADY HIGH.
- 9. Read Transfer: With wait state: The transfer is extended if PREADY is driven LOW during an Access phase. The protocol ensures that the following remain unchanged for the additional cycles. PADDR, PWRITE , PSEL ,PENABLE. Figure shows that two cycles are added using the PREADY signal. However, you can add any number of additional cycles, from zero upwards.
- 10. Read Transfer: With no wait state:
- 11. Write followed by Read Transfer:
- 12. Error Response: You can use PSLVERR to indicate an error condition on an APB transfer. Error conditions can occur on both read and write transactions. PSLVERR is only considered valid during the last cycle of an APB transfer, when PSEL, PENABLE, and PREADY are all HIGH. It is recommended, but not mandatory, that you drive PSLVERR LOW when it is not being sampled. That is, when any of PSEL, PENABLE, or PREADY are LOW. Transactions that receive an error, might or might not have changed the state of the peripheral. This is peripheral-specific and either is acceptable. When a write transaction receives an error this does not mean that the register within the peripheral has not been updated. Read transactions that receive an error can return invalid data. There is no requirement for the peripheral to drive the data bus to all 0s for a read error. APB peripherals are not required to support the PSLVERR pin. This is true for both existing and new APB peripheral designs. Where a peripheral does not include this pin then the appropriate input to the APB bridge is tied LOW.
- 15. State Machine:
- 16. Advantages: Low power Simple interface Suitable for many peripherals Latched address and control
- 17. Disadvantages: Single master – limits parallelism Scalability – performance suffers as bus as loaded