Free models for ARM's AMBA on-chip interconnect

Carbon Design Systems^TM has published a set of free SystemC models for ARM’s AMBA^TM (Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture) protocol to enable use with TLM-2.0, the Transaction-level Modeling Standard developed by the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI).  The models are available for download from Carbon’s IP Exchange at no charge.

According to Carbon’s press release:

The software contains definitions and extensions for AMBA 3 AXI3^TM, AHB^TM, AHB-Lite^TM and APB^TM protocols at the loosely timed, approximately timed and cycle-timed levels of abstraction. Adapters are provided to bridge between abstraction levels and to connect directly to the AMBA Programmer’s View (PV) interface used by ARM’s Fast Models.

The TLM-2.0 for the AMBA protocol solution will execute in any SystemC environment and contains no runtime licensing. Using the source, examples and documentation provided in the kit, designers can create models representing AMBA intellectual property (IP) blocks at any level of abstraction.  

Carbon teamed with ARM to include the PV (programmer view) extensions for AMBA used by the Fast Models’ TLM-2.0 interface as part of the kit. The TLM-2.0 for the AMBA protocol solution is available for download from Carbon’s IP Exchange web portal at: www.carbonipexchange.com. To access the tool, select “Free Downloads” from the IP Categories menu.