SmartDV’s AXI to APB Bridge IP is a silicon-proven, fully featured protocol bridge solution purpose-built for SoC designs requiring seamless connectivity between AXI masters and APB slave peripherals across high-performance processor, DMA controller, and peripheral subsystem designs. Fully compliant with ARM AMBA AXI5 and AMBA APB5, and backward compatible with AXI4, AXI3, APB4, and APB3, it translates AXI transactions into APB transactions with configurable endianness and data widths on both interfaces, simultaneous write/read transaction acceptance with sequential APB execution, and configurable data phase timeout for error response on unresponsive APB peripherals.
Designed for the practical integration requirements of modern mixed AXI/APB SoC designs, the bridge maintains full conformance with both AXI and APB signaling rules, accepts simultaneous AXI write and read requests while executing them sequentially on the APB side. Its production-tested bridge architecture gives SoC integration teams a reliable AXI-to-APB interface solution that transparently manages the protocol differences between the high-performance AXI master side and the simpler APB peripheral side.
Built for design flexibility and silicon efficiency, the IP core is highly configurable for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. Its parameterized bus widths and clean integration interface enable fast design bring-up across a wide range of process nodes.
