SmartDV’s APB to AHB Bridge IP is a silicon-proven, fully featured protocol bridge solution purpose-built for SoC designs requiring seamless APB-to-AHB connectivity across embedded processor, peripheral controller, and high-performance SoC designs. Fully compliant with ARM AMBA AHB5 and AMBA APB5, and backward compatible with AHB-Lite, AHB2, APB4, and APB3, it translates APB transactions into AHB transactions with configurable data bus widths, address bus widths, and address space per AHB slave, enabling APB masters to seamlessly access higher-performance AHB slave resources.
Designed for the practical integration requirements of modern mixed APB/AHB SoC designs, the bridge maintains full conformance with both APB and AHB signaling rules, supports configurable endianness on both interfaces, and includes a configurable data phase timeout for automatic error response generation when AHB slaves are unresponsive. Its support for simultaneous write and read transaction acceptance with sequential AHB execution gives SoC integration teams a production-tested APB-to-AHB bridge that handles the full range of APB transaction types transparently.
Built for design flexibility and silicon efficiency, the IP core is highly configurable for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. Its parameterized bus widths, configurable address space, and clean integration interface enable fast design bring-up across a wide range of process nodes.
