A9.2
ACE configurations
This section describes the ACE configurations.
Note
If you want to connect the processor to an AXI interconnect, Arm recommends that you use the AXI
processor configuration option. Using the ACE processor configuration option in AXI mode is less area-
efficient than the AXI configuration option.
Table A9-1 Supported ACE configurations
Signal
Feature
AXI
mode
ACE non-coherent
ACE outer coherent
ACE inner coherent
No L3
cache
With L3
cache
No L3
cache
With L3
cache
No L3
cache
With L3
cache
BROADCASTCACHEMAINT
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
BROADCASTOUTER
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
BROADCASTINNER
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
The following table shows the key features in each of the supported ACE configurations.
Table A9-2 Supported features in the ACE configurations
Features
Configuration
AXI mode ACE non-
coherent, no L3
cache
ACE non-
coherent, with L3
cache
ACE outer
coherent
ACE inner
coherent
AXI3 or AXI4 compliance
Yes
No
No
No
No
ACE compliance
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Barriers on AR and AW channels
No
No
No
No
No
Cache maintenance requests on
AR channel
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Snoops on AC channel
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Coherent requests on AR or AW
channel
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
DVM requests on AR channel
No
No
No
No
Yes
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