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Glossary
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Boundary scan chain
A boundary scan chain is made up of serially-connected devices that implement
boundary scan technology using a standard JTAG TAP interface. Each device contains
at least one TAP controller containing shift registers that form the chain connected
between TDI and TDO, through which test data is shifted. Processors can contain
several shift registers to enable you to access selected parts of the device.
Burst A group of transfers to consecutive addresses. Because the addresses are consecutive,
there is no requirement to supply an address for any of the transfers after the first one.
This increases the speed at which the group of transfers can occur. Bursts over AMBA
are controlled using signals to indicate the length of the burst and how the addresses are
incremented.
See also Beat.
Byte An 8-bit data item.
Byte lane strobe A signal that is used for unaligned or mixed-endian data accesses to determine the byte
lanes that are active in a transfer. One bit of this signal corresponds to eight bits of the
data bus.
Multi-master AHB Typically a shared, not multi-layer, AHB interconnect scheme. More than one master
connects to a single AMBA AHB link. In this case, the bus is implemented with a set of
full AMBA AHB master interfaces. Masters that use the AMBA AHB-Lite protocol
must connect through a wrapper to supply full AMBA AHB master signals to support
multi-master operation.
Endianness Byte ordering. The scheme that determines the order that successive bytes of a data
word are stored in memory. An aspect of the system’s memory mapping.
See also Little-endian and Big-endian
Little-endian Byte ordering scheme in which bytes of increasing significance in a data word are stored
at increasing addresses in memory.
See also Big-endian and Endianness.
Little-endian memory
Memory in which:
• a byte or halfword at a word-aligned address is the least significant byte or
halfword within the word at that address
• a byte at a halfword-aligned address is the least significant byte within the
halfword at that address.
See also Big-endian memory.