why in amba protocal burst can't cross 1k boundry

[husteven]

amba protocal

As the amba protocal said ,the burst issued by master can't cross the 1K boundry, does it have any problem? Or the limitation is a former one, don't have effect now?

 

[moneychaser]

It's to keep the size of the adders needed to increment address to only be 11-bits.

 

[windflower]

It's to keep the size of the adders needed to increment address to only be 11-bits.

I cannot agree with you. I have think it before,maybe for HADDR decoder or some reason else.

 

[asickrishna]

If an AHB slave samples HSELx at the start of a burst transaction, it knows
it will be selected for the duration of the burst. Also, a slave which is
not selected at the start of a burst will know that it will not become
selected until a new burst is started.

1 kilobyte is the smallest area an AHB slave may occupy in the memory map.
Therefore, if a burst did cross a 1 kilobyte boundary, the access could
start accessing one slave at the beginning of the burst and then switch to
another on the boundary, which must not happen for the above reason.

The 1 kilobyte boundary has been chosen as it is large enough to allow
reasonable length bursts, but small enough that peripherals can be aligned
to the 1 kilobyte boundary without using up too much of the available
memory map.