Implementation of AMBA AHB protocol using verilog HDL

Abstract

Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) is a series of bus protocols provided by ARM. These include AHB, APB and ASB. AMBA provides an on-chip communication standard for these buses to be used in high performance microcontrollers. In this paper we have implemented the AMBA AHB (Advanced High-Performance Bus) which is used for high performance transfers among different modules of the microcontroller. AHB supports efficient connection of processor, on chip memory, DMA and off chip external memories. AMBA AHB system bus supports multiple bus masters and slaves. The design is implemented using Verilog HDL and simulated using ModelSim 6.4a. Synthesis for the design is done using Xilinx ISE 14.4.