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6.1.6. AXI Bridge Intel® FPGA IP
You can use an AXI Bridge Intel® FPGA IP to group different parts of your Platform Designer system. Other parts of the system can then connect to the bridge interface instead of to multiple separate master or slave interfaces. You can also use an AXI bridge to export AXI interfaces from Platform Designer systems.
The AXI bridge also supports ACE-Lite interface signals when enabled on the master or slave side. Platform Designer treats these ACE-Lite interface signals as pass through signals.
The following figure shows a system with a single AXI master and three AXI slaves. It also has various interconnect components, such as routers, demultiplexers, and multiplexers. Two of the slaves have a narrower data width than the master; 16-bit slaves versus a 32-bit master.
In this system, Platform Designer interconnect creates four width adapters and four burst adapters to access the two slaves. You can improve resource usage by adding an AXI bridge. Then, Platform Designer needs to add only two width adapters and two burst adapters; one pair for the read channels, and another pair for the write channel.
The figure shows the same system with an AXI bridge component, and the decrease in the number of width and burst adapters. Platform Designer creates only two width adapters and two burst adapters, as compared to the four width adapters and four burst adapters in the previous figure. Even though this system includes more components, the overall system performance improves because there are fewer resource-intensive width and burst adapters.