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AMBA Network Interconnect (NIC-301)

Technical Reference Manual

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Change history
Date Issue Confidentiality Change
05 May 2006 A Non-Confidential First release for r0p0.
19 September 2006 B Confidential First release for r1p0.
06 July 2007 C Confidential First release for r1p1.
02 October 2007 D Confidential First release for r1p2.
22 April 2008 E Confidential Second release for r1p2. Updates to the following:
Decode register
Read acceptance capability and write acceptance capability
Write issuing capability
Narrow to wide translation
Physical data.
03 November 2009 F Non-Confidential First release for r2p0.
19 February 2010 G Non-Confidential First issue for r2p1.